Managing and Visualizing Your BIM Data: Understand the fundamentals of computer science for data visualization using Autodesk Dynamo, Revit, and Microsoft Power BI

Cover
Title page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Overview of Digitalization and BIM Data
Chapter 1: Introducing Units of Digital Information
	Exploring the beginning of the digitization era
	Learning how simple digital data is
	Getting to know types of digital data
	Understanding how much data we produce
	Learning about hybrid jobs
	Summary
Chapter 2: Understanding Data Centers
	Understanding data centers
		Learning the different types of cloud solutions
		Introducing the first data center in history, ENIAC
		Learning about The Citadel and Project Natick
	Getting started with Power BI
		Setting up Power BI and exploring the World Happiness Report
		Creating your first dashboard
		Customizing and filtering the chart
	Summary
Chapter 3: Warming Up Your Data Visualization Engines
	Getting started with data visualization
		Scatter plot
		Column chart
		Bar chart
		Stacked bar chart
		Line chart
		Pie chart
		Radar chart
		Waterfall chart
	Why analyzing BIM data is important
	Exploring Microsoft Power BI charts
		Downloading and importing the dataset
		Formatting the other values
		Creating the column chart
		Creating a waterfall chart
		Creating a line chart
	Summary
Section 2: Examples and Case Studies from Experts around the World
Chapter 4: Building a Data Bridge between BIM Models and Web-Based Dashboards
	Technical requirements
		Installing Visual Studio Community
	Identifying the problem
	Creating your first Revit plugin
		Understanding the environment
		Configuring dotnet framework and PresentationCore.dll
		Installing the Revit dll
		Updating your local repository
		Updating the RibbonBar.cs file
		Testing the plugin startup
		Exploring the toolbar
	Preparing Microsoft Power BI
	Building the Power BI report
		Visualizing the data in Power BI
		Publishing and sharing your final report
	Summary
Chapter 5: Getting Started with Autodesk Dynamo and Data Gathering
	Technical requirements
	Understanding visual programming
	Introducing Autodesk Dynamo BIM for Revit
	Understanding the Dynamo UI and its basic components
		Menus
		The upper-right corner
		Library
		Execution bar
		Nodes
		Node states
	Types of data
	Setting up the environment
	Exporting data from Revit
	Updating data in Excel
	Importing data back into Revit
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 6: Importing Revit Plans in Power BI Using Shape Files
	Technical requirements
	Setting up Dynamo
	What are shape files?
	Writing our data sources for Power BI
		Understanding the script UI window using the Data-Shapes package
		Collecting and filtering all the Revit rooms
		Exporting room data to Excel
		Processing room boundary geometry
		Generating the Shape file
		Manipulating the shape file to include metadata
	Setting up Power BI with the Synoptic Panel
	Visualizing our data in Power BI
	Summary
Chapter 7: Creating a Revit Model-Check Dashboard Using Dynamo and Power BI
	Technical requirements
	Identifying what data to track in Revit
		Criteria
		Potential data to track
	Collecting and exporting data using Dynamo
		Collecting data
		Dynamo script
		Exporting data
	Building the Power BI dashboard
		Importing Excel data
		Creating visuals
		Inserting a project illustration
		Exporting and sharing the dashboard
		Updating the dashboard
	Summary
Section 3: Deep Dive into Autodesk Dynamo
Chapter 8: Deep Dive into Dynamo Data Types
	Technical requirements
	Introducing lists and indexes
		How to select elements
		How to use levels to select elements
	Learning IF statements and variables
	Concatenating strings
	Working with strings (searching and replacing)
	Getting to know regular expressions
	Summary
Chapter 9: Using Dynamo to Place Family Instances
	Technical requirements
	Creating the first family placement script
	Creating the second family placement script
		Environment setup
		Introducing the second script
		Placing a family instance on each window
	Summary
Chapter 10: Gathering a Revit Model\'s Data from Multiple Models at Once
	Technical requirements
	Creating the data collector script
		Collecting information from multiple models
		Collecting information about Rooms
		Collecting data from Levels
		Collecting information from Sheets
		Adding the filename to each list
	Exporting the datasets to Excel
	Adding the user interface
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 11: Visualizing Data from Multiple Models in Power BI
	Technical requirements
	Importing and formatting the datasets
		Importing the datasets
		Formatting the datasets
	Creating the charts
		Creating the table chart
		Creating the stacked column chart
		Creating the donut chart
		Creating the scatter plot chart
		Creating the map
	Summary
Chapter 12: Having Fun with Power BI
	Technical requirements
	Building the form
	Understanding how to publish the dataset
		Connecting the cables on the Power BI side
		Completing the Google form
	Importing the data and creating the charts
		Importing the dataset
		Creating the charts
	Summary
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