Resources
This section provides tutorials, how-to guides explanations and reference material designed to aid users in answering questions about the ComStock dataset.
Tutorials
This section provides lessons for understanding certain capabilities and functions of ComStock, as well as for learning a specific analysis skill.
- Joining Data from an External Dataset to ComStock using Geospatial Fields
- Perform an analysis by blending ComStock and local data
How-to Guides
This section provides a collection of step-by-step guides for using the ComStock dataset to answer a given question.
- Understand the annual energy use by building type for a city
- Access the ComStock datasets programmatically - Example scripts
- Perform a basic commercial building stock segmentation analysis in Excel
Explanations
These documents provide explanations focusing on the how and why of various parts of the ComStock data sets. While this section does not provide explicit advice on how to achieve a specific outcome, the documentation here will help users understand specific and important aspects the data sets. If while using ComStock there are aspects of the data sets that seem counterintuitive and / or confusing, please email us to recommend an additional piece of explanation documentation.
General
- Building Type Crosswalks
- Considerations for ComStock Calibration, Validation, and Uncertainty
- Geographic Fields and Codes
- Sampling and Weighting in ComStock
- Using ComStock to Analyze Cost
- Why Individual ComStock Measure Results Should Not Be Combined
ComStock Limitations and Known Issues
References
These documents describe various aspects of ComStock, including the baseline and upgrade model documentation, as well as geographic clustering methodology.
ComStock Reference Documentation
This document serves as a guide to and resource for the methodology and assumptions behind ComStock. The Reference Documentation will be updated as major changes to the baseline models are incorporated.
ComStock Reference Documentation: Version 1
March 2023
Corresponding ComStock releases:
- 2023/comstock_amy2018_release_1
- 2023/comstock_amy2018_release_2
Upgrade Measures
The measure documentation describes the modeling methodology, assumptions, relevant ComStock baseline features, and observations from results.
Geographic Clustering Reference Documentation
These documents provide reference documentation for the clustering methodology developed by ComStock. The clustering algorithm described in this technical report resulted in 88 clusters across the United States. The clusters are used as the geographic basis for the “U.S. Building Stock Segmentation Series” published by DOE’s Building Technologies Office. This series will provide geographically relevant insight into building stock characteristics, energy and emissions performance, and, eventually, common end use technologies. The cluster definitions file maps counties to building stock segmentation clusters.
Building Stock Segmentation Cluster Development
June 2023
Building Stock Segmentation Cluster Definitions
July 2023