The LexCube is an interactive digital cube that can visualise climate data for any location and can even be accessed on a mobile phone. Photo: Anja Barz
The LexCube is an interactive digital cube that can visualise climate data for any location and can even be accessed on a mobile phone. Photo: Anja Barz Researchers from Leipzig University will present an interactive digital cube that can visualise climate data from anywhere in the world in space and time at the Building Bridges for the Next Generations conference on 16 May. As a freely accessible website, LexCube makes terabytes of data available to everyone. The programming and implementation of the data cube is the PhD project of Maximilian Söchting, supervised by Professors Gerik Scheuermann and Miguel Mahecha. Climate change and the biodiversity crisis are two of the greatest challenges facing society today. Leipzig University is conducting intensive and increasingly interdisciplinary research on both issues. One major challenge is dealing with vast amounts of data.
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