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+# Medical Textual Data Analysis
+
+The project extracts important information from the medical data and covers visualizations of the data with respect to different parameters.
+
+## Team Members
+
+The following is the list of our team members, all of us belonging to Computer Engineering (4th year).
+
+- [Shrawak Bhattarai (11)](https://github.com/Shrawak)
+- [Ramraj Chimouriya (14)](https://github.com/RamrajCh)
+- [Deependra Kumar Gupta (18)](https://github.com/Deependra12)
+- [Shreyam Pokharel (40)](https://github.com/pshreyam)
+
+## Get Started
+
+The project uses python3. Any version of python3 above python3.6 should be compatible. Python3 can be downloaded from [https://www.python.org/downloads/](https://www.python.org/downloads/).
+
+### Install Dependencies
+
+Extract the zip file and locate `requirements.txt` file in the folder.
+
+Run the following command in order to install the dependencies:
+
+```bash
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+### Setup Database
+
+Before proceeding forward, MongoDB database access credentials has to be put in .env file as specified in .env-sample file. You can just rename .env-sample to .env and update the information.
+
+### Run the app
+
+After the dependencies are installed in the system and MongoDB database is set up, run `app.py` script as:
+
+```bash
+python app.py
+```
+
+After successfully running the script, goto `http://127.0.0.1:8050` in your browser to access medical data visualization.