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Haskell Data Analysis cookbook

Haskell Data Analysis cookbook

By : Nishant Shukla
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Haskell Data Analysis cookbook

Haskell Data Analysis cookbook

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By: Nishant Shukla

Overview of this book

Step-by-step recipes filled with practical code samples and engaging examples demonstrate Haskell in practice, and then the concepts behind the code. This book shows functional developers and analysts how to leverage their existing knowledge of Haskell specifically for high-quality data analysis. A good understanding of data sets and functional programming is assumed.
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Using MongoDB queries in Haskell

MongoDB is a nonrelational schemaless database. In this recipe, we will obtain all data from MongoDB into Haskell.

Getting ready

We need to install MongoDB on our local machine and have a database instance running in the background while we run the code in this recipe.

MongoDB installation instructions are located at http://www.mongodb.org. On Debian-based operating systems, we can use apt-get to install MongoDB, using the following command line:

$ sudo apt-get install mongodb

Run the database daemon by specifying the database file path as follows:

$ mkdir ~/db
$ mongod --dbpath ~/db

Fill up a "people" collection with dummy data as follows:

$ mongo
> db.people.insert( {first: "Joe", last: "Shmoe"} )

Install the MongoDB package from Cabal using the following command:

$ cabal install mongoDB

How to do it...

  1. Use the OverloadedString and ExtendedDefaultRules language extensions to make the MongoDB library easier to use:
    {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings, ExtendedDefaultRules #-}
    import Database.MongoDB
  2. Define and implement main to set up a connection to the locally hosted database. Run MongoDB queries defined in the run function as follows:
    main :: IO ()
    main = do
        let db = "test"
        pipe <- runIOE $ connect (host "127.0.0.1")
        e <- access pipe master db run
        close pipe
        print e
  3. In run, we can combine multiple operations. For this recipe, run will only perform one task, that is, gather data from the "people" collection:
    run = getData
    
    getData = rest =<< find (select [] "people") {sort=[]}

How it works...

A pipe is established by the driver between the running program and the database. This allows running MongoDB operations to bridge the program with the database. The find function takes a query, which we construct by evoking the select :: Selector -> Collection -> aQueryOrSelection function.

Other functions can be found in the documentation at http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mongoDB/docs/Database-MongoDB-Query.html.

See also

If the MongoDB database is on a remote server, refer to the Reading from a remote MongoDB server recipe to set up a connection with remote databases.

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