GRADES OF STUDENTS IN MATHEMATICS AND PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE FROM GABRIEL PEREIRA HIGH SCHOOL (GP) AND MOUSINHO DA SILVEIRA (MS) HIGH SCHOOLS ANALYSIS
( The aim of the project:
- To determine the characteristics that affect the grades of students
- To obtain insights from the data
- To predict the final grades of students who are not in the dataset
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Below is a nrief description of the columns in the dataset
- school - student's school ('GP' - Gabriel Pereira or 'MS' - Mousinho da Silveira)
- sex - student's sex ('F' - female or 'M' - male)
- age - student's age (from 15 to 22)
- address - student's home address type ('U' - urban or 'R' - rural)
- famsize - family size ('LE3' - less or equal to 3 or 'GT3' - greater than 3)
- Pstatus - parent's cohabitation status ('T' - living together or 'A' - apart)
- Medu - mother's education (0 - none, 1 - primary education (4th grade), 2 - 5th to 9th grade, 3 - secondary education or 4 - higher education)
- Fedu - father's education (0 - none, 1 - primary education (4th grade), 2 - 5th to 9th grade, 3 - secondary education or 4 - higher education)
- Mjob - mother's job ('teacher', 'health' care related, civil 'services' (e.g. administrative or police), 'at_home' or 'other')
- Fjob - father's job ('teacher', 'health' care related, civil 'services' (e.g. administrative or police), 'at_home' or 'other')
- reason - reason to choose this school (close to 'home', school 'reputation', 'course' preference or 'other')
- guardian - student's guardian ('mother', 'father' or 'other')
- traveltime - home to school travel time
- studytime - weekly study time (numeric: 1 - 10 hours)
- failures - number of past class failures
- schoolsup - extra educational support (yes or no)
- famsup - family educational support (yes or no)
- paid - extra paid classes within the course subject (Math or Portuguese) (yes or no)
- activities - extra-curricular activities (yes or no)
- nursery - attended nursery school (yes or no)
- higher - wants to take higher education (yes or no)
- internet - Internet access at home (yes or no)
- romantic - with a romantic relationship (yes or no)
- famrel - quality of family relationships (from 1 - very bad to 5 - excellent)
- freetime - free time after school (from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
- goout - going out with friends (from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
- Dalc - workday alcohol consumption (from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
- Walc - weekend alcohol consumption (from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
- health - current health status (from 1 - very bad to 5 - very good)
- absences - number of school absences (from 0 to 93)
- G1 - first period grade (from 0 to 20)
- G2 - second period grade (from 0 to 20)
- G3 - final grade (from 0 to 20)