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Real estate price trends: an opera

Recently, the folks at National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered" found themselves wishing they could show their audience, in the form of a graph, the recent history of America’s home prices. But radio, of course, can’t do much with the visual medium of graphs and charts.

So they converted the data into musical notes and gave it to a singer at the Julliard School in New York to perform in operatic fashion.