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Model Audits with Dynamo Part 2 - Big Data

My last post touched on further development of model audit scripts with Dynamo.   There was a desire to capture all of the valuable data collected as part of the audit, just running the audit as an issued state check is very useful but once the Excel spreadsheet used to present and record the results is closed all of the data is lost, furthermore there is additional data in the model which would be useful to capture.  For example, c onsider comparing the data for the number of sheets in a model, a fairly broad measure of project complexity and the data showing hours worked from a company time-sheet database. This would allow for more accurate costing on similar future projects.  There are countless similar metrics and with the advent of machine learning upon us capturing vast amounts of data now has never been more important.  We don't yet know what uses there will be for this in years to come.  In order to record the data it's necessary to connect dynamo to a databa