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Simon Walkowiak
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Simon Walkowiak is a cognitive neuroscientist and a managing director of Mind Project Ltd a Big Data and Predictive Analytics consultancy based in London, United Kingdom. As a former data curator at the UK Data Service (UKDS, University of Essex) European largest socio-economic data repository, Simon has an extensive experience in processing and managing large-scale datasets such as censuses, sensor and smart meter data, telecommunication data and well-known governmental and social surveys such as the British Social Attitudes survey, Labour Force surveys, Understanding Society, National Travel survey, and many other socio-economic datasets collected and deposited by Eurostat, World Bank, Office for National Statistics, Department of Transport, NatCen and International Energy Agency, to mention just a few. Simon has delivered numerous data science and R training courses at public institutions and international companies. He has also taught a course in Big Data Methods in R at major UK universities and at the prestigious Big Data and Analytics Summer School organized by the Institute of Analytics and Data Science (IADS).
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MongoDB with R


After the short introduction provided earlier, you should now be able to define the basic characteristics of a variety of NoSQL databases. In this part of the book, we will explore the features and practical applications of MongoDB.

Introduction to MongoDB

MongoDB is one of the examples of non-relational data storage systems, and it also supports a number of data processing and analytics frameworks such as complex aggregations and even MapReduce jobs. All these operations are carried out by the means of MongoDB NoSQL queries - an alternative to the standard SQL language for querying relational databases. As you will soon find out, MongoDB NoSQL commands are very expressive and quite simple to learn. The only problem that most users encounter is the quite convoluted syntax (BSON format) for complex aggregations and queries, but we will explore this issue in the following sections.

MongoDB data models

One of the reasons for this difficulty in writing very complex aggregations using...

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Simon Walkowiak

Simon Walkowiak is a cognitive neuroscientist and a managing director of Mind Project Ltd a Big Data and Predictive Analytics consultancy based in London, United Kingdom. As a former data curator at the UK Data Service (UKDS, University of Essex) European largest socio-economic data repository, Simon has an extensive experience in processing and managing large-scale datasets such as censuses, sensor and smart meter data, telecommunication data and well-known governmental and social surveys such as the British Social Attitudes survey, Labour Force surveys, Understanding Society, National Travel survey, and many other socio-economic datasets collected and deposited by Eurostat, World Bank, Office for National Statistics, Department of Transport, NatCen and International Energy Agency, to mention just a few. Simon has delivered numerous data science and R training courses at public institutions and international companies. He has also taught a course in Big Data Methods in R at major UK universities and at the prestigious Big Data and Analytics Summer School organized by the Institute of Analytics and Data Science (IADS).
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