Day 9: Reading a Spectrogram

Definitely not the same spectrogram as yesterday, no really look. Now for the part where I tell you how to read this thing…

Last post we introduced a new tool in our arsenal of signal processing analysis, the spectrogram. Without knowing how to read it, it just looks sort of like a colored mess. Don’t get me wrong, it is an interesting looking colored mess, but a mess nonetheless. Well today we are going to talk about how to interpret the plot and why exactly we would ever use this seeming monstrosity.*

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August 28, 2019 | Categories: 365 Days of Academia - Year one | Tags: computer, computer science, Education, Engineering, Math, mathematics, matlab, neuroscience, science, signal processing, spectrogram | Leave a comment