Design Analytics

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A design is data, that is, it is a description of the artifact that will be made based on the design. Traditionally**such data have been limited to, for example, visual representations, specifications and contractual documents.**Today, design firms generate vastly more data, but have inadequate access to tools to gain insight from such**data. Yet the field of "visual analytics" provides concepts and systems exactly for such analysis work. The**proposed research aims at the analysis and visualization of design data, that is, collections of designs, their**alternatives, project documentation, and data collected from buildings and their settings. Such data collections**contain both geometric design data, and increasingly, large amounts of numeric and textual data in both**structured form describing processes, contracts and design performance. The research will devise, prototype**and evaluate prototypes mapping such data onto geometric design information and vice versa. It combines the**fields of visual analytics and design, which combination we call "design analytics."