Y1chenYao / thank-u-next

Final project for CS4300 Information Retrieval System

Thank-u-next: Cornell Professor Recommender

Contents

• Summary
• Demo
• Running Locally

Summary

Find your next Cornell professor based on real-world student reviews 🤩

You can search by the following metrics 🧐

• Professor that you like
• Course that you like
• Keyword (free search, anything!)
• Filter by department/subject

You will retrieve a list of similar professors recommended to you with 🥳

• Professor department
• Professor featuring courses
• Professor overall/difficulty/workload rating
• Cosine similarity score (based on the input)
• Professor keywords extracted from student reviews
• Professor sentiment analysis
• A random sample review from an anonymous student 👀

Demo

Update: Our project is now in cs4300 hall of fame!

Visit the website here

Running locally

Step 1: Set up a virtual environment

Create a virtual environment in Python.

Step 2: Install dependencies

You need to install dependencies by running python -m pip install -r requirements.txt in the backend folder.

Step 3: Running the app

Uncomment the last line in app.py and run python app.py and comment the mysql code.