April 2018
Beginner
552 pages
13h 58m
English
Databases are a perfect way to store lots of structured data while maintaining the ability to access and search for specific data. Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized set of commands to update and query databases. For this example, we will use SQLite (a lightweight, self-contained implementation of an SQL database system).
In this chapter, we will gather raw data from our ADC (or local data source) and build our own database. We can then use a Python library called sqlite3 to add data to a database and then query it:
## Timestamp 0:Light 1:Temperature 2:External 3:Potentiometer 0 2015-06-16 21:30:51 225 212 122 216 1 2015-06-16 21:30:52 225 212 148 216 2 2015-06-16 21:30:53 225 212 113 216 ...