Learning materials on how to interpret and understand ladybug analysis data

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Hello fellow ladybuggers.

As a new user of ladybug I find it difficult to understand what all these awesome graphs and charts mean. I can try and make some sense out of all this, but I feel like I just don’t have enough knowledge and experience on how to translate all this juiciness into meaningful conclusions that I can later on give my fellow architects or colleagues (better in a gentle manner, so their brains won’t go to space).

Can anyone suggest the books or maybe videos on YouTube or just share their experience here. I think it will be helpful to any new ladybugger.

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Hi Tim ,

these videos for Mostapha & Chris will help you to understand how to use ladybug & honeybee plugin :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0holrRypJilkFo-Dv4JsQ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6HWbF4UtdKdjbZ2tvwiCQ

from my point of view, I think you will need to read about basics of environmental design to know what you need to analyse , why and what will you get from this analysis you have done .

try also to understand the inputs & outputs of every Icon you use to avoid mistakes or errors .

wish you all the best,

Mona

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Hi Tim,

As Mona said videos are a great place to start. We also started this two premiers for Ladybug and Honeybee that you may find useful:

https://www.gitbook.com/book/mostapharoudsari/ladybug-premier/details

https://www.gitbook.com/book/mostapharoudsari/honeybee-premier/details

The components are connected to Hydra where you can find some examples for each component.

Mostapha

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Hi Mostapha,

I’ve subscribed to your and Mackey’s channel long time ago. Ladybug is pretty user friendly and intuitive. My problem is in how to give meaningful explanation to my colleagues when I show them ladybug’s charts and graphs (btw, they love them). Thanks for the suggestions, Mona and you are right, I will google about. Any good books that you could recommend to start with?

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Hi Tim ,

Can you give me an example of what you need to explain ?

for example if you need to know more about psychrometric chart , please find attached a file explain it ( sorry I can’t remember the file source )

is this what you mean by " meaningful explanation " ?

Regards

Mona

About the Psychrometric Chart.docx (159 KB)

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Hey Mona,

Currently I don’t have any specific questions, I encounter them on the way and then try to google and see if I can make sense out of it. But to be honest, I could post any single analysis chart here and hear what experienced users can say, maybe start a session where users can help each other?

Thanks for the doc, nice to have a written explanation under your hand. Also, maybe this will be useful for somebody. Started out with this video myself, turns out ladybug uses simplified psychometric chart, maybe for good XD