Los Angeles Southwest College knowledge graph

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  1. One map for nine colleges

    20,139 course records and 1,719 programs, joined by 91,798 connections. Each dot is about 50 course records.

  2. LA Southwest College’s part of the map

    Courses sit in the middle. Programs, GE areas, subjects, and instructors connect to them directly, and careers connect through programs.

  3. One course: Programming in C

    CS 114 has 5 connections here. Each one is a stored fact, not a sentence on a web page that has to be found and interpreted.

  4. An old course number still leads here

    CO SCI 639 became CS 114. Transcripts and older catalogs still use the old number, so the map keeps the link between them. RENUMBERED_TO

  5. Prerequisites form a path

    CS 102 to CS 114. Each step is its own connection, so the assistant can follow the whole chain instead of stopping at one page. PREREQUISITE_OF

  6. One course counts in several places

    1 program, and through it, 16 careers. A search would need a separate page for each. REQUIRES_COURSE LEADS_TO_CAREER

  7. “What are the prerequisites for CS 114, and is it transferable?”

    The assistant reads prerequisites and transfer status straight from the map. AI only turns them into a sentence, so it isn’t guessing at them from memory.

Everything in LA Southwest College’s map

Read each row as a sentence. The last column is the name the system uses for that connection.

Connection types in the Los Angeles Southwest College knowledge graph, with counts
From Connection To How many System name
A subject contains a course 1,500 HAS_COURSE
A course counts toward a GE area 485 FULFILLS_GE
A program includes a course 1,245 REQUIRES_COURSE
A program leads to a career 780 LEADS_TO_CAREER
An instructor teaches a course 355 TEACHES
A course is required before another course 140 PREREQUISITE_OF
A course is recommended before another course 36 ADVISORY_FOR
A course is taken alongside another course 6 COREQUISITE_OF
A course was renumbered as another course 40 RENUMBERED_TO
A program belongs to a program group 105 IN_GROUP
A subject has a free textbook 41 HAS_OPENSTAX_BOOK
A course or program is offered at the college 1,605 AT_CAMPUS
An instructor teaches at the college 241 TEACHES_AT
The college offers a subject 104 OFFERS_SUBJECT
Total connections 6,683

Nine colleges side by side

Course records include retired numbers, which is what lets an old code find its replacement. Each college name opens that college’s page.

Course records, programs, and connections by college
College Course records Programs Connections
East LA College 3,049 298 15,114
Pierce College 2,862 159 12,146
LA City College 2,785 249 12,145
LA Valley College 2,333 226 11,280
West LA College 2,241 224 9,912
LA Trade-Tech College 1,998 187 9,207
LA Harbor College 1,756 110 7,406
LA Mission College 1,615 161 7,905
LA Southwest College 1,500 105 6,683

What stays out of the map

The map holds facts that change slowly. Anything that changes daily is checked at the source when a student asks.

Class schedule
Open sections, times, and rooms come from the live LACCD schedule.
Transfer agreements
Questions about a specific university go to ASSIST.org.
Campus information
Office hours and locations come from a search of the college website.

Numbers read from the live data on . How the assistant works