Finding tailored educational paths using a graph database

Sammanfattning: The Swedish educational system is full of possibilities but is also rather complicated because of that fact. There exist several different paths to reach the same goal but how do you find them and which one is the quickest? This project has tried to make it easier for students to find the right path from start to finish by presenting possible study paths. It has been done by collecting information about schools and programs and inserting it into a graph database which has then been traversed to extract the fastest paths from the starting point (e.g. elementary school) of a student to their goal (e.g. Doctor) based on a few arguments. Interviews with student counselors have been conducted in order to evaluate how practical the system is. A conclusion from these interviews is that the system is useful but halted by the fact the database contains too little information. The idea is good but the system would need to be scaled up to be more useful, which is expected when it is a prototype. To fill the database with all information necessary is left as a future work since it would be too time-consuming.