Description
Astronify is an open-source Python package to sonify one-dimensional datasets, like lightcurves or spectra, using a pitch mapping technique. The primary goal is to provide sonification used to preview and analyze astronomical data for research purposes. Each data point is translated into a tone with fully customizable properties like duration, spacing, and pitch mapping parameters. In this presentation I will provide an overview of the software package, and give demonstrations of sonifications using simple datasets before showing examples with real lightcurves and spectra. Sonification offers another way to explore data, supplementing or augmenting visual techniques, since our hearing is more sensitive to changes in frequency. Sonification not only provides another tool for every scientist to use when exploring data, it also makes science more accessible by providing a powerful data exploration mechanism for those unable to use visual-only techniques.
