Climate Change News
Ocean of Data Challenge: Exploring Ocean and Climate Text Data
Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship (COVE), DeepSense, and ShiftKey Labs hosted the fifth Ocean Data Challenge supporting creative collaboration and idea generation. Participants used this challenge to explore text data and share something insightful, shocking, or simply informative.
Brigitta’s Song of CBC News – Climate Change with its innovative way using of data, created stunning art through sonification and visualization and got her first place in the competition and the internship with DeepSense.
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Using CBC climate change-related news texts from the past four years, Brigitta selected five keywords: ocean, environment, temperature, nature, and climate emergency. Each keyword was assigned a unique musical note. The two most frequent keywords per day were played as two notes per beat, each note represented by a different instrument. For instance, the French horn symbolized the climate emergency, conveying tension and intensity.
The visual component interacts with the audio in both versions. In the first version, the music influences a marine heatmap-like video frame by frame, synchronized with the notes.
In the second version, the visual frequency illustrates when each keyword occurs and highlights the top keyword on specific days.