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Analyzing wind data with Ladybug
From the course: Grasshopper Plugins
Analyzing wind data with Ladybug
So we've got some weather data coming into our Ladybug plugin in Grasshopper. So now what do we do with it? Well, of course there's all sorts of different applications and analysis we could apply to it. A nice simple one to start with is looking at wind speed and wind direction over time. I'm in the exercise file, 0030-wind-analysis-begin.gh, and I've just got a blank Rhino file alongside it, which we'll use to visualize our weather data. And we'll do that using a Ladybug component called the Wind Rose, and we can find that under the Visualized Data submenu of the Ladybug component menu. So I'll click and drag that onto my canvas here. And as you can see, we've got a bunch of different inputs and a bunch of different outputs. And even though it might look overwhelming, one good thing to know is that there's kind of a coding system that goes along with the inputs in Ladybug. Any input that has a left underscore is required, so we can't run the component without it. So I can see for…
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