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4. Creating Your First Cluster and Loading Sample Dataset

Luce Carter1  
(1)
Manchester, UK
 

We’re getting closer to writing code! The goal of this chapter is to create your first database cluster and load the sample dataset. The sample dataset is amazing. It is around 350MB of totally free data, available to you out of the box, that you can load with the click of a button.

Once loaded, a number of databases and collections will be created that include numerous documents of varying shapes and sizes for you to explore.

Creating Your First Cluster

In this first section, we will ...

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