9th December 2013 9:00
By Blue Tutors
I’m just finishing off categorising all the disciplines for our tutors and students, and I’ve been having trouble working out a good way to identify potential links between two disciplines. It was easy at the start when I was dealing with the most popular well-known subjects, but since we have over 4000 of these disciplines to categorise, it’s very difficult to look at the whole massive Venn diagram in its entirety and slot the discipline in correctly.
What I’ve done for now is a simple word association search, which checks whether two disciplines sound similar and suggests them as being linked if so. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good, and should allow us to get everything categorised relatively quickly, and then the categorisation will be available to tutors so they can look at their area of expertise, and help us to correct any mistakes.