1) The document provides instructions for setting up an AWS account and launching an EC2 instance with an AMI that contains tools and documentation for a hands-on tutorial on NoSQL databases and MongoDB. 2) The tutorial covers basic MongoDB commands and demonstrates how to create, insert, update, and query document data using the mongo shell client. Embedded and nested documents are explored along with geospatial queries. 3) A map-reduce example aggregates historical check-in data to calculate popular locations over different time periods, demonstrating how MongoDB supports batch operations.