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dation</a><span class="spacer">></span></li><li><span class="last">Quick Start</span></li></ul></div><div id="page-title"><h1>Quick Start - E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template</h1></div></div><div id="table-of-content-wrapper"><h5>On this page</h5><aside id="table-of-contents"><ul> <li> <a href="#overview">Overview</a> </li> <li> <a href="#usage">Usage</a> </li> <li> <a href="#1-install-and-run-predictionio">1. Install and Run PredictionIO</a> </li> <li> <a href="#2-create-a-new-engine-from-an-engine-template">2. Create a new Engine from an Engine Template</a> </li> <li> <a href="#3-generate-an-app-id-and-access-key">3. Generate an App ID and Access Key</a> </li> <li> <a href="#4-collecting-data">4. Collecting Data</a> </li> <li> <a href="#5-deploy-the-engine-as-a-service">5. Deploy the Engine as a Service</a> </li> <li> <a href="#6-use-the-engine">6. Use the Engine</a> </li> <li> <a href="#setting-constraint-unavailableitems">Setting constraint "unavailableItems"</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#advanced-query">Advanced Query</a> </li> </ul> </aside><hr/><a id="edit-page-link" href="https://github.com/apache/predictionio/tree/livedoc/docs/manual/source/templates/ecommercerecommendation/quickstart.html.md.erb"><img src="/images/icons/edit-pencil-d6c1bb3d.png"/>Edit this page</a></div><div class="content-header hidden-sm hidden-xs"><div id="breadcrumbs" class="hidden-sm hidden xs"><ul><li><a href="#">PredictionIO® Official Templates</a><span class="spacer">></span></li><li><a href="#">E-Commerce Recommendation</a><span class="spacer">></span></li><li><span class="last">Quick Start</span></li></ul></div><div id="page-title"><h1>Quick Start - E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template</h1></div></div><div class="content"> <h2 id='overview' class='header-anchors'>Overview</h2><p>This engine template provides personalized recommendation for e-commerce applications with the following features by default:</p> <ul> <li>Exclude out-of-stock items</li> <li>Provid
e recommendation to new users who sign up after the model is trained</li> <li>Recommend unseen items only (configurable)</li> <li>Recommend popular items if no information about the user is available (added in template version v0.4.0)</li> </ul> <div class="alert-message warning"><p>This template requires PredictionIO version >= 0.9.0</p></div><h2 id='usage' class='header-anchors'>Usage</h2><h3 id='event-data-requirements' class='header-anchors'>Event Data Requirements</h3><p>By default, this template takes the following data from Event Server:</p> <ul> <li>Users' <em>view</em> events</li> <li>Users' <em>buy</em> events</li> <li>Items' with <em>categories</em> properties</li> <li>Constraint <em>unavailableItems</em> set events</li> </ul> <div class="alert-message info"><p>This template can easily be customized to consider more user events such as <em>rate</em> and <em>like</em>.</p></div><p>The <em>view</em> events are used as Training Data to train the model. The alg
orithm has a parameter <em>unseenOnly</em>; when this parameter is set to true, the engine would recommend unseen items only. You can specify a list of events which are considered as <em>seen</em> events with the algorithm parameter <em>seenEvents</em>. The default values are <em>view</em> and <em>buy</em> events, which means that the engine by default recommends un-viewed and un-bought items only. You can also define your own events which are considered as <em>seen</em>.</p><p>The constraint <em>unavailableItems</em> set events are used to exclude a list of unaviable items (such as out of stock) for all users in real time.</p><h3 id='input-query' class='header-anchors'>Input Query</h3> <ul> <li>UserID</li> <li>Num of items to be recommended</li> <li>List of white-listed item categories (optional)</li> <li>List of white-listed ItemIds (optional)</li> <li>List of black-listed ItemIds (optional)</li> </ul> <p>The template also supports black-list and whitelist. If a whitelist is provi
ded, the engine will include only those products in the recommendation. Likewise, if a blacklist is provided, the engine will exclude those products in the recommendation.</p><h3 id='output-predictedresult' class='header-anchors'>Output PredictedResult</h3> <ul> <li>A ranked list of recommended itemIDs</li> </ul> <h2 id='1.-install-and-run-predictionio' class='header-anchors'>1. Install and Run PredictionIO</h2> <p>First you need to <a href="/install">install PredictionIO 0.13.0</a> (if you haven't done it).</p><p>Let's say you have installed PredictionIO at <code>/home/yourname/PredictionIO/</code>. For convenience, add PredictionIO's binary command path to your <code>PATH</code>, i.e. <code>/home/yourname/PredictionIO/bin</code>:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span><span class="nv">PATH</span><span class
="o">=</span><span class="nv">$PATH</span>:/home/yourname/PredictionIO/bin; <span class="nb">export </span>PATH
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dation</a><span class="spacer">></span></li><li><span class="last">Quick Start</span></li></ul></div><div id="page-title"><h1>Quick Start - E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template</h1></div></div><div id="table-of-content-wrapper"><h5>On this page</h5><aside id="table-of-contents"><ul> <li> <a href="#overview">Overview</a> </li> <li> <a href="#usage">Usage</a> </li> <li> <a href="#1-install-and-run-predictionio">1. Install and Run PredictionIO</a> </li> <li> <a href="#2-create-a-new-engine-from-an-engine-template">2. Create a new Engine from an Engine Template</a> </li> <li> <a href="#3-generate-an-app-id-and-access-key">3. Generate an App ID and Access Key</a> </li> <li> <a href="#4-collecting-data">4. Collecting Data</a> </li> <li> <a href="#5-deploy-the-engine-as-a-service">5. Deploy the Engine as a Service</a> </li> <li> <a href="#6-use-the-engine">6. Use the Engine</a> </li> <li> <a href="#setting-constraint-unavailableitems">Setting constraint "unavailableItems"</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#advanced-query">Advanced Query</a> </li> </ul> </aside><hr/><a id="edit-page-link" href="https://github.com/apache/predictionio/tree/livedoc/docs/manual/source/templates/ecommercerecommendation/quickstart.html.md.erb"><img src="/images/icons/edit-pencil-d6c1bb3d.png"/>Edit this page</a></div><div class="content-header hidden-sm hidden-xs"><div id="breadcrumbs" class="hidden-sm hidden xs"><ul><li><a href="#">PredictionIO® Official Templates</a><span class="spacer">></span></li><li><a href="#">E-Commerce Recommendation</a><span class="spacer">></span></li><li><span class="last">Quick Start</span></li></ul></div><div id="page-title"><h1>Quick Start - E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template</h1></div></div><div class="content"> <h2 id='overview' class='header-anchors'>Overview</h2><p>This engine template provides personalized recommendation for e-commerce applications with the following features by default:</p> <ul> <li>Exclude out-of-stock items</li> <li>Provid
e recommendation to new users who sign up after the model is trained</li> <li>Recommend unseen items only (configurable)</li> <li>Recommend popular items if no information about the user is available (added in template version v0.4.0)</li> </ul> <div class="alert-message warning"><p>This template requires PredictionIO version >= 0.9.0</p></div><h2 id='usage' class='header-anchors'>Usage</h2><h3 id='event-data-requirements' class='header-anchors'>Event Data Requirements</h3><p>By default, this template takes the following data from Event Server:</p> <ul> <li>Users' <em>view</em> events</li> <li>Users' <em>buy</em> events</li> <li>Items' with <em>categories</em> properties</li> <li>Constraint <em>unavailableItems</em> set events</li> </ul> <div class="alert-message info"><p>This template can easily be customized to consider more user events such as <em>rate</em> and <em>like</em>.</p></div><p>The <em>view</em> events are used as Training Data to train the model. The alg
orithm has a parameter <em>unseenOnly</em>; when this parameter is set to true, the engine would recommend unseen items only. You can specify a list of events which are considered as <em>seen</em> events with the algorithm parameter <em>seenEvents</em>. The default values are <em>view</em> and <em>buy</em> events, which means that the engine by default recommends un-viewed and un-bought items only. You can also define your own events which are considered as <em>seen</em>.</p><p>The constraint <em>unavailableItems</em> set events are used to exclude a list of unavailable items (such as out of stock) for all users in real time.</p><h3 id='input-query' class='header-anchors'>Input Query</h3> <ul> <li>UserID</li> <li>Num of items to be recommended</li> <li>List of white-listed item categories (optional)</li> <li>List of white-listed ItemIds (optional)</li> <li>List of black-listed ItemIds (optional)</li> </ul> <p>The template also supports black-list and whitelist. If a whitelist is pro
vided, the engine will include only those products in the recommendation. Likewise, if a blacklist is provided, the engine will exclude those products in the recommendation.</p><h3 id='output-predictedresult' class='header-anchors'>Output PredictedResult</h3> <ul> <li>A ranked list of recommended itemIDs</li> </ul> <h2 id='1.-install-and-run-predictionio' class='header-anchors'>1. Install and Run PredictionIO</h2> <p>First you need to <a href="/install">install PredictionIO 0.13.0</a> (if you haven't done it).</p><p>Let's say you have installed PredictionIO at <code>/home/yourname/PredictionIO/</code>. For convenience, add PredictionIO's binary command path to your <code>PATH</code>, i.e. <code>/home/yourname/PredictionIO/bin</code>:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span><span class="nv">PATH</span><span cla
ss="o">=</span><span class="nv">$PATH</span>:/home/yourname/PredictionIO/bin; <span class="nb">export </span>PATH
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="alert-message note"><p>If you launched <strong>PredictionIO AWS instance</strong>, the path is located at <code>/opt/PredictionIO/bin</code>.</p></div><p>Once you have completed the installation process, please make sure all the components (PredictionIO Event Server, Elasticsearch, and HBase) are up and running.</p><div class="alert-message note"><p>If you launched <strong>PredictionIO AWS instance</strong>, you can skip <code>pio-start-all</code>. All components should have been started automatically.</p></div><p>If you are using PostgreSQL or MySQL, run the following to start PredictionIO Event Server:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio eventserver &
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>If instead you are running HBase and Elasticsearch, run the following to start all PredictionIO Event Server, HBase, and Elasticsearch:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio-start-all
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>You can check the status by running:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio status
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Your system is all ready to go.
<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span> MyApp1 | 1 | 3mZWDzci2D5YsqAnqNnXH9SB6Rg3dsTBs8iHkK6X2i54IQsIZI1eEeQQyMfs7b3F | <span class="o">(</span>all<span class="o">)</span>
<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span> MyApp2 | 2 | io5lz6Eg4m3Xe4JZTBFE13GMAf1dhFl6ZteuJfrO84XpdOz9wRCrDU44EUaYuXq5 | <span class="o">(</span>all<span class="o">)</span>
<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span> Finished listing 2 app<span class="o">(</span>s<span class="o">)</span>.
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p><a href="#"></a></p> <h2 id='4.-collecting-data' class='header-anchors'>4. Collecting Data</h2><p>Next, let's collect training data for this Engine. By default, the E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template supports 2 types of entities and 2 events: <strong>user</strong> and <strong>item</strong>; events <strong>view</strong> and <strong>buy</strong>. An item has the <strong>categories</strong> property, which is a list of category names (String). A user can view and buy an item. The specical <strong>constraint</strong> entiy with entityId <strong>unavailableItems</strong> defines a list of unavailable items and is taken into account in realtime during serving.</p><p>In summary, this template requires '$set' user event, '$set' item event, user-view-item events, user-buy-item event and '$set' constraint event.</p><div class="alert-message info"><p>This template can easily be customized to consider other user-to-it
em events.</p></div> <p>You can send these events to PredictionIO Event Server in real-time easily by making a HTTP request or through the provided SDK. Please see <a href="/appintegration/">App Integration Overview</a> for more details how to integrate your app with SDK.</p><p>Let's try sending events to EventServer with the following <code>curl</code> commands (The corresponding SDK code is showed in other tabs).</p><p>Replace <code><ACCCESS_KEY></code> by the Access Key generated in above steps. Note that <code>localhost:7070</code> is the default URL of the Event Server.</p><p>For convenience, set your access key to the shell variable, run:</p><p><code>$ ACCESS_KEY=<ACCESS_KEY></code></p> <p><a href="#"></a></p> <p>For example, when a new user with id "u0" is created in your app on time <code>2014-11-02T09:39:45.618-08:00</code> (current time will be used if eventTime is not specified), you can send a <code>$set</code> event for this user. To send this
event, run the following <code>curl</code> command:</p><div class="tabs"> <ul class="control"> <li data-lang="json"><a href="#tab-fdd01be0-cb3a-45d3-9983-d6c3af176340">REST API</a></li> <li data-lang="python"><a href="#tab-fa117c06-e503-418c-9ff2-c57e805228a1">Python SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="php"><a href="#tab-3d9b5d83-90e5-496d-b2b7-07263fb0ea1f">PHP SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="ruby"><a href="#tab-ca7727d8-e246-4a51-9979-dc0d2711bccf">Ruby SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="java"><a href="#tab-b75b0ac9-c5f2-4486-aebe-faa8501d7af3">Java SDK</a></li> </ul> <div data-tab="REST API" data-lang="json" id="tab-fdd01be0-cb3a-45d3-9983-d6c3af176340"> <div class="highlight shell"> <table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr> <td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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em events.</p></div> <p>You can send these events to PredictionIO Event Server in real-time easily by making a HTTP request or through the provided SDK. Please see <a href="/appintegration/">App Integration Overview</a> for more details how to integrate your app with SDK.</p><p>Let's try sending events to EventServer with the following <code>curl</code> commands (The corresponding SDK code is showed in other tabs).</p><p>Replace <code><ACCCESS_KEY></code> by the Access Key generated in above steps. Note that <code>localhost:7070</code> is the default URL of the Event Server.</p><p>For convenience, set your access key to the shell variable, run:</p><p><code>$ ACCESS_KEY=<ACCESS_KEY></code></p> <p><a href="#"></a></p> <p>For example, when a new user with id "u0" is created in your app on time <code>2014-11-02T09:39:45.618-08:00</code> (current time will be used if eventTime is not specified), you can send a <code>$set</code> event for this user. To send this
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on"><a href="#tab-b423f98a-2502-4627-b363-3b8b86dddc66">REST API</a></li> <li data-lang="python"><a href="#tab-0fad5c1b-f428-4131-9ef0-c28e445fd7df">Python SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="php"><a href="#tab-a547ad7b-24eb-49be-ac02-a47fb90b3cf7">PHP SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="ruby"><a href="#tab-b3bdc8f0-77d8-4e81-924b-e8f0b72ba4ca">Ruby SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="java"><a href="#tab-3733150d-f77a-4a74-8aa9-e5d6a9b3fbd4">Java SDK</a></li> </ul> <div data-tab="REST API" data-lang="json" id="tab-b423f98a-2502-4627-b363-3b8b86dddc66"> <div class="highlight shell"> <table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr> <td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ http://localhost:8000/queries.json
<span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityId</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"unavailableItems"</span><span class="o">)</span>
<span class="o">.</span><span class="na">property</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"items"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">ImmutableList</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">of</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"<ITEM ID1>"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="s">"<ITEM ID2>"</span><span class="o">));</span>
<span class="n">cl
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