[BlindMath] What does the largest one-day drop in market value sound like?

Fri Aug 3 02:43:06 UTC 2018

Wow, very cool.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 8:20 PM Vincent Martin via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Sabra,
> What Ed is utilizing is called sonification and it is a true discipline in
> itself.  It is a field that is still in its infancy, so there is still no
> consensus on how to do many of the things that you are requesting.  I
> studied under Dr. Bruce Walker in the sonification lab and earned a couple
> of graduate degrees at Georgia Tech in graduate school from 2010 to 2017.
> We utilized multi-modal approaches toward research, but mostly the research
> was based upon how to represent information in the most efficient and
> effective way utilizing sound, whether it is speech or non-speech.
> Non-speech audio is what was being utilized to sonify the dataset that Ed
> utilized.  SAS basically incorporated the Sonification Sandbox (a tool
> developed in Dr. Walker's lab)  into their display engine to create a
> phenomenal tool for representing data.  Since it was done, I have used it
> to
> make all my .
> Sonification really helps people that can actually see a lot and is very
> prevalent in our everyday environment.  There are many instances where the
> visual representation of data is entirely too difficult or does not afford
> a
> person the actual information necessary to make adequate analysis.  This is
> when sonification really stands out.  You can also spot outliers or other
> changes in direction in data much easier with very large datasets.  Another
> benefit is the speed that you can analyze data.  I had access to a Tiger
> embosser when I worked as a research scientist, but it took a very long
> time
> to get the graphs I needed in the correct format to read.  The cost of the
> embosser was also very prohibitive for a single person to own and many
> school systems don't even purchase them.
> If you are a student, then you can get free access to the student version
> of
> SAS and the graphics accelerator is in it.  As a data scientist, you can do
> virtually everything you need with Python and with SAS to also do data
> analysis, you could probably work in this arena.
> There is also research being done to help with the descriptions of graph as
> well.  Sometimes just knowing what the graph looks like, along with the
> name
> can make understanding a sonified graph quite easy.  When you have to use
> this to hemp with your interpretation of data, it is almost a necessity to
> utilize every tool necessary.
> Here are a few links to get you started.  Let me know if there any
> questions
> I can answer for you and there is also another alumni of Dr. Walker's lab
> that is on this list that is sighted who has done extensive work trying to
> display data with sound
> I have added a few links at the end of this message that you can use to get
> started.
>
> PS- In seven years of teaching undergraduates in class or conducting
> research and over many, many studies, I asked many participants a simple
> question when I was explaining what the rationale was for my research was.
> I asked them how I determined which elevator to enter when I pressed a
> button in a large lobby.  In seven years, no sighted person ever got it
> right.  Four times I had people answer that I listened for the sound.  No
> one could ever tell me what the sounds were and what they meant.  Once I
> told them, I would be routinely stopped on campus by them and told that I
> was exactly right about those elevator sounds.  A great audio design does
> its purpose and hides in the background.
>
> Sonification
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonification
>
>
> The sonification Handbook
>
> https://secure-web.cisco.com/1Q5Zrj4OL3Mm0gGRH1oYNObhbXF2mo06I_d-Fyg-DhclQdJSLgEMMg7duMqdDwalBbn2KkV2x-EDXCNvoTF6bGrDj8TK2B5lw96DW5n-WsMgDWaLikyJjRvfxE-mpdLI-sUH6jdUI8b2LUAehhdzqNAuU0iR8cQlzFH-r0neUFs4acnCqa_4stXQCdvpwGyRcks0mU2IzKHByj0XIxg3Id_DxnXQ32ZaNZzCpXf3jjl5CaLcxeh_csMRVI-NDAaazUjRN85oFvOdgZEKawne_SpiGOCScSFWcZvVr4s-jBMzBtyYDhJ8W_dr0aoys3AAJkUeW-DW5GNFtKmrDjUI0HdHfzlmTWoMgcXvYZNU3oqzAxGVnc6rbxTr3NCI3V5Rr464q40odrjqPJ-Btjjs1Wj9PhcJxjZjztIpJNt41Hcvt7Dc9gtP-p9y07Br3Z4DckKRhdkHn3jk3SyqVlnvxzg/https%3A%2F%2Fsonification.de%2Fhandbook%2F
>
> International Community for Audio displays
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Community_for_Auditory_Display
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindMath <blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Sabra Ewing
> via
> BlindMath
> Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2018 8:53 PM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Sabra Ewing <sabra1023 at gmail.com>; Pranav Lal <pranav.lal at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [BlindMath] What does the largest one-day drop in market value
> sound like?
>
> Wow, that chart made a lot of sense to me and I normally can't read charts
> very well. What I got out of it was that at the beginning of the quarter,
> they were making a good amount of money. Near the middle of the quarter,
> the
> earnings went way down, and then they abruptly went up to around where they
> were at the beginning of the quarter. Then, they slowly went up and at the
> end of the quarter, the earnings were higher than they were at the
> beginning
> of the quarter. Am I right? I am looking to go into the field of data
> analysis. Do you know what would be the best way to access charts and that
> field? I need the charts to be like this the way that you make it. I do not
> need any of these tactile charts. It does not have to be a piano, but it
> needs to be the same where it can draw it in my mind. I want what you are
> saying where I can navigate the chart using the keyboard, I can listen to
> the chart, I can get the numbers from it, I can listen to certain portions
> of the chart, and I can maybe even connected with a spreadsheet. I would
> like to have things on a spreadsheet that I can turn into a chart that I
> can
> listen to and also show to people. I need to chart to go from left to right
> in the earphones the way that you have it, and I would even be interested
> in
> charts that use 3-D recording. Also, I would like a feature in Aira where
> an
> agent can send me a picture or a chart that I can listen to. I would also
> love to be able to switch between my computer and my phone when dealing
> with
> these charts, have it integrated with collaboration tools if I am working
> on
> a data set with the team, and so forth. Do you know what I could do to get
> into this field? I would also like to know why I can't read any tactile
> pictures, graphs, or maps even though I was born blind and had lots of
> training to try to teach me, but I can listen to complicated charts and
> pictures without training? I even listened to this one picture that was
> rotating. Also is it possible to sound code things the way that sighted
> people colorcode them? Like how they might put important points in a
> different color or put certain portions of the chart in a different
> color?Or
> if Aira cannot actually link up with a piece of software, it would be cool
> if the agents could receive training to be able to sing you a picture or a
> chart although that might be a bit harder if you have no way to make it go
> left to right.
>
> Sabra Ewing
>
> > On Aug 2, 2018, at 6:22 PM, Pranav Lal via BlindMath
> <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ed,
> >
> > Very cool. Do the beeps indicate the y axis? I am confused by the
> > higher pitch which seems to be indicating a lower value? That is, the
> > higher the pitch the lower the value or is it that the value kept
> > climbing and then just stopped?
> >
> > Pranav
> >
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