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Frontiers in Zoology BioMed Central Methodology Open Access Music notation: a new method for visualizing social interaction in animals and humans Ivan D Chase*1,2 Address: 1Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4345, USA and 2Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245, USA Email: Ivan D Chase* - ichase@ * Corresponding author Published: 17 November 2006 Received: 23 June 2006 Accepted: 17 November 2006 Frontiers in Zoology 2006, 3:18 doi:10.1186/1742-9994-3-18 This article is available from: /content/3/1/18 © 2006 Chase; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Researchers have developed a variety of techniques for the visual presentation of quantitative data. These techniques can help to reveal trends and regularities that would be difficult to see if the data were left in raw form. Such techniques can be of great help in exploratory data analysis, making apparent the organization of data sets, developing new hypotheses, and in selecting effects to be tested by statistical analysis. Researchers studying social interaction in groups of animals and humans, however, have few tools to present their raw data visually,