The programs are enhanced: Excel has better visualisation tools to help users spot trends or anomalies.

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It produces images for inclusion in tender bids, animations for presentations and many other forms of architectural visualisation.

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The second initiative, the Visualisation of Climate Change Project, is aimed at high school and college students throughout the world.

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Prof Wedeen used visualisation software that enabled him to fly around and through these pathways - even to zoom in to see intricate details.

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To make the dataset user-friendly, it is available on the web through a sophisticated online data visualisation and manipulation tool called the Live Access Server.

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Using visualisation software, archaeologists can then analyse their finds in 3D.

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Mr Sloan combines time-series visualisation and Venetian typography with ease.

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Many had no hearing loss at all, but were also given the opportunity to appreciate the music through their other senses, by feeling the vibrations or seeing a large visualisation of the performance on a big screen.

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Dr Rosling loves to stitch hundreds of such seemingly disparate details into larger narratives, and his next project is his most sweeping and ambitious yet: an attempt to use statistics and data visualisation to explain the entire world from 1800 to 2050.

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By using very advanced visualisation tools like Qlikview, we can disect the data and combine them in any dimension we needed, to make sure we have good ways to track out progress, and do not miss any markets or any products or any customers.

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