If you run Anaconda it is easy to install Blaze. Just issue the following command in your CLI (see the Bonus Chapter 1, Installing Spark if you do not know what a CLI is):
conda install blaze
Once the command is issued, you will see a screen similar to the following screenshot:
We will later use Blaze to connect to the PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases, so we need to install some additional packages that Blaze will use in the background.
We will install SQL Alchemy and PyMongo, both of which are part of Anaconda:
conda install sqlalchemy conda install pymongo
All that is now left to do is to import Blaze itself in our notebook:
import blaze as bl