Similar Courses or Majors

The goal of this project was to find similar courses across all majors at the University of Washington in order to give students more options when it comes to course planning. The approach to finding similar courses and programs was to use TF-IDF (term frequency - inverse document frequency) approach to find the most important "features", or words, in each course or program description. Then, I used K-Nearest Neighbors on these important words to find similar courses or programs given a query course or program. Course descriptions were web scraped from the UW course catalogue and any courses that did not have descriptions were not included: https://www.washington.edu/students/crscat/