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MongoDB using Python

MongoDB can be used directly from the shell command or through programming languages. For the sake of our book we'll explain how it works using Python. MongoDB is accessed using Python through a driver module named PyMongo.

We will not go into the detailed usage of MongoDB, which is beyond the scope of this book. We will see the most common functionalities required for analysis projects. We highly recommend reading the official MongoDB documentation.

PyMongo can be installed using the following command:

pip install pymongo  

Then the following command imports it in the Python script

from pymongo import MongoClient 
client = MongoClient('localhost:27017') 

The database structure of MongoDB is similar to SQL languages, ...