Inspiration
Students I speak to around me still struggle to decide what they want to pursue with their education. I considered why this might be and it was likely due to the lack of information due to how cluttered current systems are. I thought that students should be recommended majors based off their values and beliefs, hence, I was interested in making that work.
What it does
MyEducation is a site that helps students find out what to pursue with their education. Using ML and flask, I built a site that recommends majors based of the values and identity of the user.
How we built it
I used flask in order to handle the machine learning model. The model is built with data that is web scrapped with python. The data will be used to vectorize the data after being cleaned. The user inputs are then used to find a major that is the highest likelihood. Information will be sent to the user about what is the major and if it really does interest them.
Challenges we ran into
The largest issue was finding good data to built the model on, it took a while to find a site that provided that information that I was looking for. Though, the model is still finicky due to its dataset.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Im proud that the model has worked well in that it produces majors that represents the values that the person inputs into the bar.
What we learned
I learned the importance of time management, in addition, how to mess with flask.
What's next for MyEducation
The future will be to increase the accuracy of the model with more data and data more specific to what we are doing. In addition, we would make the site look much more interesting than the plain site we have currently.
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