Information
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BytZsWzpd8xeZHJfSjBmYTRIaDQ
Python Installation: http://www.pyzo.org/start.html
Python SciKit: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html
R Installation: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
- CRIM: per capita crime rate by town
- ZN: proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft.
- INDUS: proportion of non-retail business acres per town
- CHAS: Charles River dummy variable 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise)
- NOX: nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million)
- RM: average number of rooms per dwelling
- AGE: proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940
- DIS: weighted distances to five Boston employment centres
- RAD: index of accessibility to radial highways
- TAX: full-value property-tax rate per $10,000
- PTRATIO: pupil-teacher ratio by town
- LSTAT: % lower status of the population
- MEDV: Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's
- school - student's school (binary: "GP" - Gabriel Pereira or "MS" - Mousinho da Silveira)
- sex - student's sex (binary: "F" - female or "M" - male)
- age - student's age (numeric: from 15 to 22)
- address - student's home address type (binary: "U" - urban or "R" - rural)
- famsize - family size (binary: "LE3" - less or equal to 3 or "GT3" - greater than 3)
- Pstatus - parent's cohabitation status (binary: "T" - living together or "A" - apart)
- Medu - mother's education (numeric: 0 - none, 1 - primary education (4th grade), 2 – 5th to 9th grade, 3 – secondary education or 4 – higher education)
- Fedu - father's education (numeric: 0 - none, 1 - primary education (4th grade), 2 – 5th to 9th grade, 3 – secondary education or 4 – higher education)
- Mjob - mother's job (nominal: "teacher", "health" care related, civil "services" (e.g. administrative or police), "at_home" or "other")
- Fjob - father's job (nominal: "teacher", "health" care related, civil "services" (e.g. administrative or police), "at_home" or "other")
- reason - reason to choose this school (nominal: close to "home", school "reputation", "course" preference or "other")
- guardian - student's guardian (nominal: "mother", "father" or "other")
- traveltime - home to school travel time (numeric: 1 - <15 min., 2 - 15 to 30 min., 3 - 30 min. to 1 hour, or 4 - >1 hour)
- studytime - weekly study time (numeric: 1 - <2 hours, 2 - 2 to 5 hours, 3 - 5 to 10 hours, or 4 - >10 hours)
- failures - number of past class failures (numeric: n if 1<=n<3, else 4)
- schoolsup - extra educational support (binary: yes or no)
- famsup - family educational support (binary: yes or no)
- paid - extra paid classes within the course subject (Math or Portuguese) (binary: yes or no)
- activities - extra-curricular activities (binary: yes or no)
- nursery - attended nursery school (binary: yes or no)
- higher - wants to take higher education (binary: yes or no)
- internet - Internet access at home (binary: yes or no)
- romantic - with a romantic relationship (binary: yes or no)
- famrel - quality of family relationships (numeric: from 1 - very bad to 5 - excellent)
- freetime - free time after school (numeric: from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
- goout - going out with friends (numeric: from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
- Dalc - workday alcohol consumption (numeric: from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
- Walc - weekend alcohol consumption (numeric: from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
- health - current health status (numeric: from 1 - very bad to 5 - very good)
- absences - number of school absences (numeric: from 0 to 93)
These grades are related with the course subject, Math or Portuguese:
- G1 - first period grade (numeric: from 0 to 20)
- G2 - second period grade (numeric: from 0 to 20)
- G3 - final grade (numeric: from 0 to 20, output target)
Additional note: there are several (382) students that belong to both datasets .
These students can be identified by searching for identical attributes that characterize each student, as shown in the annexed R file.