Manipulating data with the Django ORM

- [Instructor] The provided data for this challenge…came formatted as a comma separated value…or csv file which is located within the exercise files,…chapter six, resources folder.…To view the contents of dashBoardData.csv,…I'll open it using Microsoft Excel.…This file has six columns of data.…The first column is a timestamp formatted…as year dash month dash day, the letter T,…hours, colon minutes, colon seconds,…and then the letter Z for zulu time.…

Of the other columns, the pulsometer readout,…red, blue, and green values are all integer numbers.…And the engine efficiency is represented…with decimal precision.…Rather than parsing through this…file every time my application gets a request,…it makes more sense to store it all in a database.…Django provides object-relational mapping or ORM…which enables the programmer to manipulate data…from a database using an object-oriented paradigm.…

To use Django's ORM, I specified a model…for the data object I wanna use in the models.py file…which is located under the projects dashboard subfolder.…