From Science Magazine: “From stock trends to changes in Earth’s temperature, data that vary over time are usually represented in graphs and charts. How boring! What if, instead, one could listen to the sudden drop of a stock price or the steady increase of global temperatures? Enter sonification, the process of transforming flat data into mellow soundwaves.”
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/meet-scientist-who-turns-data-music-and-listen-sound-neutron-star