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Data Collection

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Working with CEA Databases - Part 1
CEA Data Collection
Working with CEA Databases - Part 1
CEA Data Collection
CEA Data Collection
Working with CEA Databases - Part 2
CEA Data Collection
Working with CEA Databases - Part 2
CEA Data Collection
CEA Data Collection
Working with CEA Databases - Part 3
CEA Data Collection
Working with CEA Databases - Part 3
CEA Data Collection
CEA Data Collection
Speeding up geospatial data collection with CEA: Part 3/3
CEA Data Collection
Speeding up geospatial data collection with CEA: Part 3/3
CEA Data Collection

This is the final part of a series of posts dedicated to describe the Data Management tools of CEA.

Back in Part 1, I described how to gather geospatial data about technology and economics with the Data Helper tool. Then, in Part 2, I described how to gather geometry data about buildings and their terrain with the District Helper tool and the Terrain Helper tool.

CEA Data Collection
Speeding up geospatial data collection with CEA: Part 2/3
CEA Data Collection
Speeding up geospatial data collection with CEA: Part 2/3
CEA Data Collection

This article is Part 2 of a series of posts dedicated to describe the Data Management tools of CEA.

Back in Part 1, I described how to gather technical and economic data for the are of your interest with the Data Helper tool.

CEA Data Collection
Speeding up geospatial data collection with CEA: Part 1/3
CEA Data Collection
Speeding up geospatial data collection with CEA: Part 1/3
CEA Data Collection

What if we could reduce the collection time of geospatial data from one year to a matter of a few days?

In this 3 blog series, I discuss a series of tools capable of collecting geo-referenced data about the built environment automatically.

Start saving time with the free and open source Data Management tools of the City Energy Analyst (CEA).

CEA Data Collection

Advanced Analysis

CEA Modeling

Make your own CEA Plugins

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CEA Plugins - Part 6: Publish your plugin and claim your T-Shirt
CEA Plugins
CEA Plugins - Part 6: Publish your plugin and claim your T-Shirt
CEA Plugins

You’ve coded up your CEA plugin - now it’s time to add it to the CEA and share it with the rest of the world!

CEA Plugins
CEA Plugins - Part 5: How to add your own plots to the CEA
CEA Plugins
CEA Plugins - Part 5: How to add your own plots to the CEA
CEA Plugins

This article goes into the details of the plots.yml file used in CEA plugins.

CEA Plugins
CEA Plugins - Part 4: How to add your own tools to the CEA
CEA Plugins
CEA Plugins - Part 4: How to add your own tools to the CEA
CEA Plugins

Now that you have an overview of the CEA plugin template, let’s dive into some of the files responsible for adding a new tool to the CEA.

CEA Plugins
CEA Plugins - Part 3: Introduction to the CEA plugin template
CEA Plugins
CEA Plugins - Part 3: Introduction to the CEA plugin template
CEA Plugins

The easiest was to get started creating your own plugin is to start with the CEA plugin template. In this article, we’ll get you started with your own plugin based on the CEA plugin template on GitHub.

CEA Plugins
CEA Plugins - Part 2: Anatomy of a CEA plugin
CEA Plugins
CEA Plugins - Part 2: Anatomy of a CEA plugin
CEA Plugins

Let’s take a bird’s-eye view of the parts that make up a CEA plugin. We’ll cover the interface expected by the CEA when you define a plugin as well as it’s default implementation: cea.plugin.CeaPlugin.

CEA Plugins
CEA Plugins - Part 1: Introduction
CEA Plugins
CEA Plugins - Part 1: Introduction
CEA Plugins

The City Energy Analyst (CEA) consists of a core set of tools and visualizations of the output of those tools. This article is about extending that set with your own tools and your own visualizations. To do that, you’ll need to write a CEA plugin.

CEA Plugins

CEA and Grasshopper

Unfortunately, we have stopped supporting CEA’s interface at Grasshopper. Hence, we have stopped updating the existing blogs on Grasshopper-CEA. However, we will still be sharing our experiences using Grasshopper to visualize CEA data in the future blogs.

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