Design Analytics

设计就是数据，也就是说，它是对将基于设计制作的构件的描述。传统上**这类数据仅限于视觉表现、规范和合同文档。**今天，设计公司产生的数据要多得多，但无法获得从这些**数据中获得洞察力的工具。然而，“视觉分析”领域恰恰为这种分析工作提供了概念和系统。**拟议的研究旨在分析和可视化设计数据，即设计集合、其**备选方案、项目文档以及从建筑及其环境中收集的数据。这类数据集合**既包含几何设计数据，也包含越来越多的描述流程、合同和设计绩效的**结构化形式的大量数字和文本数据。这项研究将设计、制作原型，并评估将这些数据映射到几何设计信息的原型，反之亦然。它结合了视觉分析和设计领域，我们称之为“设计分析”。

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."