Technical requirements
This chapter requires that you have access to a web browser and can leverage the following:
- A GCP account to access the Google Cloud Console.
- A GCP project to host the BigQuery datasets.
- BigQuery Flex slots to train matrix factorization models in BigQuery ML. The training for these kinds of algorithms is only available to flat-rate customers or customers with reservations. If you're using BigQuery with its on-demand pricing, we'll show you how to use BigQuery Flex Slots.
Now that the technical requirements are clear, let's look at our use case about the BigQuery ML matrix factorization model.