Fundamentals of Data Transformation

Learn how to build aggregation pipelines to process, transform, and analyze data efficiently in MongoDB.

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  Learning Objectives

Define Aggregation Framework

Understand how the aggregation framework works in MongoDB, including its purpose, benefits, and common aggregation patterns.

Understand Aggregation Pipeline Stage Ordering

Learn how the order of aggregation pipeline stages impacts performance and results, and apply best practices for efficient pipeline structuring.





Build an Aggregation Pipeline

Learn how to build and optimize aggregation pipelines to efficiently process, transform, and manipulate data using various pipeline stages.

Sarah Evans | Senior Curriculum Engineer

Sarah Evans | Senior Curriculum Engineer

Sarah is a Senior Curriculum Engineer on the Curriculum team at MongoDB. Prior to MongoDB, she taught and developed curricula for developer bootcamps. Sarah has a MAT degree from Columbia University Teachers College and studied Software Engineering at Flatiron School in Chicago, IL.

Aaron Becker | Technologist, Education

Aaron Becker | Technologist, Education

Aaron Becker is a Technical Trainer, Instructional Designer, and Training Manager who has worked in the tech sector for over 13 years. Before joining the Curriculum team at MongoDB, Aaron worked in DevOps at CircleCI, creating their first Certification course (CircleCI Associate Developer) and leading a team responsible for creating and managing the educational content for CircleCI Academy for external/customer training, as well as CircleCI University for internal team member training.

Prior to that, Aaron worked in data protection, redundancy, and security at Carbonite, where he headed up the Training team, created and delivered ILT training courses for Carbonite's Mid-Market and Enterprise level products, and assisted over 150 employees in earning Microsoft certifications.

Aaron enjoys writing, performing, recording, mixing and mastering music, playing video games, and writing biographical text in the third person.

Manuel Fontan Garcia | Senior Technologist, Education

Manuel Fontan Garcia | Senior Technologist, Education

Manuel is a Senior Technologist on the Curriculum team at MongoDB. Previously he was a Senior Technical Services Engineer in the Core team at MongoDB. In between Manuel worked as a database reliability engineer at Slack for a little over 2 years and then for Cognite until he re-joined MongoDB. With over 15 years experience in software development and distributed systems, he is naturally curious and holds a Telecommunications Engineering MSc from Vigo University (Spain) and a Free and Open Source Software MSc from Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain).

Daniel Curran | Senior Software Engineer

Daniel Curran | Senior Software Engineer

Daniel is a Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB. Before joining MongoDB, he worked as an Instructional Designer and Content Developer specialising in technical content for a host of international clients. Daniel's goal is to remove obstacles so learners can feel confident on their journey to become masters of MongoDB.