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Architects as tool consumers, discovering trends in software and programming languages for architecture with Google tren

Presentation of the Paper: Architects as tool consumers-discovering trends in software and programming languages for architecture with Google trends at Dakam ArchTheo conference.<br><br>With this research we aim to understand trends in the dissemination of software among architects, not only inside the major Architectural firms but from the whole fragmented world of architecture, exploiting the records of Google searches, analyzed through the Google Trends platform.<br><br>The number of software, plug-ins and programming languages used today by architects is too broad to be enumerated, functionalities offered by each program in many cases intersect, so we have therefore decided to differentiate our research into three typologies of software, based on their main features, and two further typologies including programming languages and visual programming languages used in architecture:<br><br>1) General-Purpose CAD Software;<br>2) BIM software;<br>3) Rendering Software;<br>4) Visual Programming Languages;<br>5) Programming languages;<br><br>For each of these, when possible, we selected the most popular products, with an amount of google research sufficient to be recognized as topics, then we analyzed a period of 10 years, from January 1, 2009, to January 1, 2019, choosing the whole world as area and u201cArchitectureu201d as category

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Architects as tool consumers, discovering trends in software and programming languages for architecture with Google tren

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  1. “If your girlfriend is pregnant, google will know it before you do.” Google’s corporate mission is The first thing people do nowadays when they have an issue is to search it on the Internet using a search engine like Google. “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Google uses approximately 20 petabytes of user-generated data every day. More than 2 trillions of research carried out every year on Google (Sullivan, 2016) that’s about 63,000 research every second. about 20.000.000 GB.

  2. Digital Twins Collected by Google Searches performed Watched videos Ads displayed or clicked Geographic Position Websites visited Apps, browsers and devices used to access Google services Provided by us Name, date of birth and gender Password and phone number Email you send and receive on Gmail Saved photos and videos Documents created on Drive Comments posted on YouTube Contacts Calendar events

  3. What is Google Trends? Google Trends is a platform, available since 2006 for anyone who wants to understand how often a keyword is searched on Google. When questioned, it does not report the total number of searches. It’s based on a query share: searches carried out on a specific keyword within a geographic area in a time period is divided by the total number of searches made on google in the same area and period. The maximum value of the query share in the given period is normalized to 100 and the additional values indicate the deviation in the analysed time frame. Google trends data is computed using a sampling method and the results vary a few percent from day to day.

  4. Categories Google allows to differentiate the search in: 30 main, and 250 secondary categories, according to a natural language classification engine, through a probabilistic assignment. as example: the term “apple” is assigned partially assigned to the categories, Computer and Electronics and Food & Drink.

  5. Terms of research or Topics? Search by terms also includes the keywords composed by the term we are looking for and all their meanings. Search by topics, only possible when the amount of query is sufficiently large, collects terms of different languages that carry same meanings. if we analyse the word “Architecture” in English, google trends it will not only count for “traditional” Architecture, but also Software Architecture So if we look for the topic “London” we will get also the results for “capital of the UK”, “Londres”, etc.

  6. Can we trust Google Trends? More than 657 Scientific Researchs exploited Google Trends since 2006 (Jun et al, 2018) In 2009, a research published on Nature demonstrated that Google Trends traced and predicted the spread of influenza earlier than the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Corporations are using Google Trends to understand users behaviours in terms of Seasonality, Industry & Brand Monitoring, Product Range Expansion, Longevity of Trends.

  7. Five typologies of Tools General Purpose CAD BIM Render Visual Programing Languages Programing Languages Autocad Revit Vray Generative Components C++ Sketchup Archicad Octane Render C # Dynamo 3D studio Max Microstation Maxwell Render Python Grasshopper Rhinoceros Allplan Corona Render Visual Basic.NET Cinema 4d VisualARQ Renderman Ruby

  8. General purpose CAD2009-2019 Peak Query Share Average Autocad 69 Sketchup 16 3D studio Max 5 Rhinoceros 1 Cinema 4d 1

  9. BIM 2009-2019 Query Share Average Revit 65 Archicad 28 Microstation 8 Allplan 4 VisualARQ <1

  10. Render 2009-2019 Query Share Average Vray 43 Octane Render 14 Maxwell Render 10 Corona Render 7 Renderman 2

  11. Visual Programing languages2009-2019 *search by terms Query Share Average Dynamo 32 Grasshopper 9 Generative Components 1

  12. Programing languages 2009-2019 Query Share Average C++ 49 C # 33 Python 18 Visual Basic.NET 14 Ruby 13

  13. Programing languages2009-2019 Architecture All topics C++ C # Python Visual Basic.NET Ruby

  14. Best of each type2004-2019 Architecture All topics Revit Autocad Vray C++ Dynamo Python

  15. Are Architects hostile to innovation? Autocad, despite the reduced capacity and expandability for the computational design, maintains a role in CAAD. The diffusion of programming in Architecture, despite the research carried out within the University e major architectural firms remains weak. Revit has become the most “interesting” software in the BIM type in last decade. In our view the fragmentation of our sector seems to further increase. There is more interest on Dynamo than on Grasshopper. Giuseppe Gallo @bhangy

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