This program is a tool to read and analyze researcher information on ResearchGate in Excel format.

It is capable of computing the following information:

1. Total number of distinct researchers
2. Total number of distinct interests
3. A researcher's information by given name
4. Total number of distinct researchers who have a given interest
5. Total number of distinct researchers who share two given interests
6. Top 5 similar researchers recommendation based on given researcher name

• Requirement of Java 8
• Excel dataset put in /dataset
• POI packages put in /lib (along with xmlbeans-2.6.0.jar)

1. Use CommandLine Tool to change directory into the root folder /

2. For Mac and Linux user

   javac -cp ".:lib/*" src/CSE210/Main.java -Xlint
   java -cp ".:lib/*" -ea src/CSE210/Main

3. For Windows user

   javac -cp ".;lib/*" src/CSE210/Main.java -Xlint
   java -cp ".;lib/*" -ea src/CSE210/Main

4. On startup, it will read the file and a test will be runned automatically. If any test fails, the program will abort.

5. Type in number 1 - 6 to run differnt task as instructed and 7 to quit.

6. Researcher name and interest should be entered accurately.