Don't Blink
3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2011–2019
10:00 · 1.2M views · Jul 13, 2010
A timeline visualization plotting the 2053 nuclear tests and detonations from 1945 to 1998 on a world map, with sound marking each blast. It conveys the pace of the nuclear arms race.
HN links it as a reference for the history and distribution of nuclear tests, and occasionally as an example of audio data presentation.
3 comments from Hacker News
Just pondering whether there is a system that converts line graphs into series of rising and falling tones, while a voice reads out the x axis markers. If you have multiple series, you could have different sounds running in parallel - sin wave, square wave or perhaps musical instruments each denoting a different series. That might actually be usable if there was an automated system for creating them on the fly. There's also this kind of approach this video
The last 30 seconds of that video mention it but there way off base. Humanity has done a lot of above ground nuclear testing and for the most part unless your vary close it's simply a slight increase in cancer risk. this video
There is a timeline form 1945 to 1998 of all the nuclear detonations recorded, where they took place and what nation did it. this video