Chapter 7: Dashboard Analyses with Power BI

Data science in construction is an emerging sector with a vast potential to improve businesses in multiple areas, such as predicting design or construction issues, risk analysis, and optimizing building assets.

Companies are using data-driven workflows to understand data and increase certainty in business decisions. Dashboard analyses can help us to understand data with graphics and support companies to make better decisions in the project environment. It provides an efficient way to analyze building data, and BIM software is a data resource that we can use for multiple analyses.

There are many applications for producing dashboards, but we will use Microsoft Power BI in this book. This chapter will introduce Power BI for Revit to enable you to progress into more advanced workflows with Power BI.

The chapter will also explain the process of exporting and importing data from Revit to Power BI and analyzing data with Power BI.

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