Exploratory Data Analysis

(School Attendance Dropouts Tracking)

By Kiran Gupta
(BA Intern - LearnAtRise)
Submission Date: 25th October, 2022

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 Exploratory Data Analysis

School Management System – Business Problem and Objectives

Persistent student attendance problem in the schools is a known fact for many years. Irregular
attendance will lead to Chronic Absence. Chronic Absence will lead to drop out before graduation.
One of the key challenges is the lack of attendance performance monitoring throughout the school
year. Without continuous monitoring, there will be no visibility to attendance trends.

Exploratory data analysis is the first and most important phase in any data analysis. EDA is
a method or philosophy that aims to uncover the most important and frequently overlooked
patterns in a data set.

This exploratory data analysis (EDA) document aims at:

• Compile attendance data accurately and quickly
• Transform raw data into intuitive and actionable insights

By unpacking attendance data and organize them by actionable dimensions such as Grade and
Gender, etc. This will help identify root cause of attendance improvement and decline.

Goals
Improve & track Student Attendance and Suspension Rates

Objectives
● Figure out overall enrolment
● Need to improve attendance
● Reduce dropouts

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In this EDA document, we have covered the following points:
1. Preview data to uncover underlying structure
2. Extract important variables from the dataset
3. Catching Mistakes
4. Identify Discrepancies
5. Identify Missing Data
Detect outliers – due to insufficient continues data outliers can’t be checked
6. Histogram - Plot count distribution of categorical data
7. Analyze enrollment frequencies – grade and gender wise
8. Analyze Attendance to know absenteeism among boys and girls
9. Analyze Chronical Absence
9.1 Analyze Weekly and Monthly Absentees Data to Know Chronical Absence
9.2 Tiers of Intervention
9.3 Student Well-being is a Key to Positive Conditions for Learning
9.4 Strategies to improve student’s attendance
10. Findings and Insights
11. Visualization of KPI Matrics
12. KPIs