Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2019

Abstract

The recent growth of the building performance research community has been in parallel with the onebuilding.org Bldg-sim email list. This list was formed in 1999 and steadily grew into a major venue for building simulation community announcements, discussions, and questions and answers (Q&A). This paper presents an analysis of the Bldg-sim email archive to determine how traffic has grown over the years and what general trends have come and gone in this particular user community. We use a text mining approach to find the most prominent topics over the years and create trend metrics from the frequency of the most common words from those topics. The results illustrate the relative rise and fall of various software tools, organizations, and simulation topics from the portion of the simulation community who used the email list. Visualizations showing the trends are presented and discussed. The paper also discusses the generalizability of results as it should be noted that the users of this email list are primarily Englishspeaking simulation practitioners from North America. All data and code used in this analysis are available in a reproducible GitHub repository.

Keywords

Trends in simulation, bldg-sim

Discipline

Engineering | Environmental Design

Research Areas

Integrative Research Areas

Publication

Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (Building Simulation 2019), Rome, Italy, September 2-4

First Page

1522

Last Page

1529

Identifier

10.26868/25222708.2019.211087

Publisher

IBPSA

City or Country

Rome, Italy

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2019.211087

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