As data journalists and storytellers, they use both sonification and visualization to make complex information understandable to our ears and eyes. For this issue’s column on music evolution, with text by associate news editor Allison Parshall, Quick and Geere were challenged to represent a song as a visual graph. Quick studied music-performance styles for her Ph.D. in musicology, so she has experience using data to “understand the music in a different way,” as she puts it. Geere, who came to data journalism from an earth sciences background, is also passionate about music; he DJs and plays in bands.