Sonification: Listening to big data

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Introduction to Sonification First off, this has nothing to do with certain weird old Hedgehog-oriented video games (for more details on that, see here). The term actually applies to the translation of often complex, massed data streams from a variety of sources into sounds. Like the associated use of colour, it uses the specialised sensory areas of our brains to … Read More

Creating Logical Search Vectors

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We are all well aware of the power of manipulating logical vectors. However, those happy-go-lucky users out there just keep pushing the boundaries (and their luck). Some time back, we were presented with a semi-formatted character vector (from several source files) containing code-delimited sets of data, something like:“…OpenCodeF$ text number number more text other ClosingCodeF$ stuff stuff number OpenCodeB$ number … Read More