Category Archives: Python

A quick guide to using the Access database with your python scraps. The python language allows far more sophisticated data manipulation then VBA, but does not offer a built in Database. By combing Access and python enables you to quickly produce powerful data manipulation tools.

Suppose you have data describing a bunch of buildings and earthquakes (E.g., year the building was constructed, type of material used, the strength of earthquake, etc), and you know whether each building collapsed or not in each past earthquake. Using this data, you’d like to make predictions about whether a given building is going to collapse in a hypothetical future earthquake — you can see how this would be useful to say, insurance companies.