Predicting Student Grades in Portugal

Inspiration

Help teachers, parents, and students focus their energies on the areas that will have the greatest impact on good performance.

What it does

Attempt to predict high school student’s final math and Portuguese grades based on previous performance and demographic characteristics

How I built it

Used pandas, numpy, and scikit-learn to run a General Linear Regression model and a Support Vector Machine model.

Challenges I ran into

Deciding on good data.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Thorough understanding of our model.

What I learned

Nuances of SVM and GLM.

What's next for Predicting Student Grades in Portugal

Try different machine learning models and improve visualizations.