Agree. A visualization (or in this case a "sound-alization"?) is just some mapping of an abstract data set into a form more convenient for our evolved senses.
Without understanding the nature of the mapping, you don't really know if you're gaining some insight into the underlying process or just looking at (listening to) a cheap clickbait chartjunk.
From the youtube video description:
> Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark and the German Research Centre for Geosciences used data from ESA’s Swarm mission, along with other sources, to create a sounded visualisation of the Laschamp event. They mapped the movement of Earth’s magnetic field lines during the event and created a stereo sound version which is what you can hear in the video.
The soundscape was made using recordings of natural noises like wood creaking and rocks falling, blending them into familiar and strange, almost alien-like, sounds. The process of transforming the sounds with data is similar to composing music from a score.
So it sounds like this one is more interpretative and meant for popular engagement rather than scientific insight. There's probably some scientific insight to be had, but the level of depth is probably on the order of the accompanying usatoday pop-news text.
Without understanding the nature of the mapping, you don't really know if you're gaining some insight into the underlying process or just looking at (listening to) a cheap clickbait chartjunk.
From the youtube video description:
> Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark and the German Research Centre for Geosciences used data from ESA’s Swarm mission, along with other sources, to create a sounded visualisation of the Laschamp event. They mapped the movement of Earth’s magnetic field lines during the event and created a stereo sound version which is what you can hear in the video. The soundscape was made using recordings of natural noises like wood creaking and rocks falling, blending them into familiar and strange, almost alien-like, sounds. The process of transforming the sounds with data is similar to composing music from a score.
So it sounds like this one is more interpretative and meant for popular engagement rather than scientific insight. There's probably some scientific insight to be had, but the level of depth is probably on the order of the accompanying usatoday pop-news text.