Python-in-Building-Science

Basics

Code Editing and Graphical User Interfaces

There are several platform for Python:

• Sypder IDE
• Visual Studio Code

An alternative approch is to use Google Colaboratory also known as Colab. There are several good resources to show how to start using Colab:

• Text Instructions
• YouTube Video Instructions

Import Data

Plotting

Several good resources for plots are:

• Example graphs using matplotlib
• How to add subplots

Applications

Python also is used in different building science applications. Several examples are provided below:

Psychrometrics

Thermal Comfort

Interested in thermal comfort, you should see the following resources:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVdmuEdDUNM
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711020302910

Interesting Readings

• https://towardsdatascience.com/feature-engineering-in-python-2fdb9bb8ee7a

Generating EnergyPlus Weather (EPW) files

• 'diyepw' is a python package to generate EPW files for a given location over a given historical period:
• https://diyepw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html
• https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.03313

Download Hitorical Weather Data Files

https://github.com/AKstudios/wunderground_api

https://openweathermap.org/api

Visualization

Charts to avoid: https://www.iflscience.com/heres-why-you-should-almost-never-use-a-pie-chart-for-your-data-72357