👐 Setup prerequisites

Run the cells under the Step 1: Setup prerequisites section in the notebook.

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Additional steps if you are running the lab locally:

• Spin up a MongoDB Atlas cluster and obtain its connection string:

  • Register for a free MongoDB Atlas account if you don't already have one
  • Create a new database cluster
  • Obtain the connection string for your database cluster

• Set the MONGODB_URI variable to the connection string for your cluster as follows:

MONGODB_URI = "<your_connection_string>"