Importing User Events in Google Cloud's Recommendation AI - google-cloud-platform

Question

I'm working on Google Cloud's Recommendation AI. For importing User Events, it supports BigQuery but can't find the Table Schema required. As it's in Beta, the community support and Documentation is limited. Can anyone please guide me in creating Table Schema for importing user events from BigQuery?

Answer 1

As you can see here, to import data from BigQuery you should use the Recommendations AI Schema. The schema is a JSON schema like below:
[
{
"name": "product_metadata",
"type": "RECORD",
"mode": "NULLABLE",
"fields": [
{
"name": "images",
"type": "RECORD",
"mode": "REPEATED",
"fields": [
{
"name": "uri",
"type": "STRING",
"mode": "REQUIRED"
},
{
"name": "height",
"type": "STRING",
"mode": "NULLABLE"
},
{
"name": "width",
"type": "STRING",
"mode": "NULLABLE"
}
]
},
{
"name": "exact_price",
"type": "RECORD",
"mode": "REQUIRED",
"fields": [
{
"name": "original_price",
"type": "FLOAT",
"mode": "NULLABLE"
},
{
"name": "display_price",
"type": "FLOAT",
"mode": "NULLABLE"
}
]
},
{
"name": "canonical_product_uri",
"type": "STRING",
"mode": "NULLABLE"
},
{
"name": "currency_code",
"type": "STRING",
"mode": "NULLABLE"
}
]
},
{
"name": "language_code",
"type": "STRING",
"mode": "NULLABLE"
},
{
"name": "description",
"type": "STRING",
"mode": "NULLABLE"
},
{
"name": "title",
"type": "STRING",
"mode": "REQUIRED"
},
{
"name": "tags",
"type": "STRING",
"mode": "REPEATED"
},
{
"name": "category_hierarchies",
"type": "RECORD",
"mode": "REPEATED",
"fields": [
{
"name": "categories",
"type": "STRING",
"mode": "REPEATED"
}
]
},
{
"name": "id",
"type": "STRING",
"mode": "REQUIRED"
}
]
Its also important to mention that you can also import data from Google Analytics. The reference for the Google Analytics schema can be found here.