How to build a data pipeline to power personalized recommendations in e-commerce?

An effective recommendation pipeline for e-commerce involves:

  1. Event Tracking: Use Snowplow to track granular user interactions like clicks, searches, views, and purchases in real time.
  2. Data Storage: Route enriched events to platforms like Snowflake or Databricks for processing and modeling.
  3. Feature Engineering: Create behavioral features such as product affinity scores, session history, and item co-occurrence metrics.
  4. Model Training: Use collaborative filtering or deep learning techniques to build recommendation models.
  5. Inference: Serve predictions via APIs or streaming systems to personalize content or product listings dynamically.

Snowplow provides the behavioral backbone for building rich, real-time user profiles essential to personalized recommendations.

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