Giraffe Analytics is a powerful tool that allows you to combine assumptions with your model to provide decision-driving insights.
Giraffe elements that you have drawn have geometric properties (like area) and also the parameters you have applied to them.
Giraffe lets you use geometric properties, and also parameters, to define an analytic measure.
Giraffe displays each measure as a row in a custom report.
In real estate, people usually enter numbers like building areas and program mixes manually in a spreadsheet. They use drawings from another software to generate the areas, then add their assumptions in the spreadsheet. Basic values need manual calculations before entering data.
But in Giraffe, all measurements are counted as you draw.
Giraffe Analytics is like the spreadsheet software you know. Data is stored in columns, rows, and cells. It's better than your old spreadsheet because it connects with your model - no need to move data to another software!
The cool thing about Giraffe analytics is that you calculate your geometry with assumptions right in the platform.
With Analytics, you don't have to type data or do math - while you draw, Giraffe puts all the important data in your report.
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Giraffe Analytics uses attributes of Features you make while Drawing . It combines those values with assumptions from Usages and Properties to do dynamic calculations.
To put it simply, every shape has basic attributes like height, width, length, area, and volume. Giraffe always keeps track of these values for everything you draw.
When you add Usages , geometries inherit those assumptions, like cost, unit mixes, parking needs, and more. Analytics looks at this info like a spreadsheet. Each geometry is a row, and each attribute is a column.
Just like your usual spreadsheet software, the calculations you make in Analytics can use any of these details.