The researchers say that the full-scale version of the trial, now drawing to a close, seems to confirm these results.

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The 100-year-old scale drawing was sold last year in England for almost a quarter of a million pounds, but the anonymous buyer has agreed for it to go on show at the new Titanic visitor centre in Belfast.

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On a finer scale, self-organising maps can show how particular individuals use a given file of data, such as an engineering drawing, during the course of a project.

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