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442 vations made by 19th Century whalers as an example . “ In the past , they would just keep logs to show the ship ’ s journey ,” he says . “ Now , it is possible to use 19th century whaling ship logs to map the recession of the Ice Shelf in Antarctica over time . So , you get information from one particular discipline , and then later if you maintain it well , you can use it in a completely different discipline to inform research .” The Date Arena Gale mentions is a completely immersive , three-dimensional visualisation space . Burns explains that data visualisation enables researchers to ask fundamentally different questions than they would have been able to do it in the past . “ So , the technology is really transforming the way that research is done in more ways than just making it easier to store , and perform calculations on it .”
Some of the technology in the Data Arena is world first , including the ‘ Data Arena Virtual Machine ’ – a virtual machine on a USB stick that researchers can plug into their laptop , to utilise
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