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Student alcohol consumption and grades

TODO - The dataset contains comprehensive details about the students enrolled in the maths class. There are 33 columns in the data, which gives us details about the student and their background. The data can be used to determine the effects of different factors in their perfomance in class as well as other inferences about their lives.

Attributes for both student-mat.csv (Math course) and student-por.csv (Portuguese language course) datasets:

  • 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 - 1 hour)
  • studytime - weekly study time (numeric: 1 - 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)

!pip install jovian opendatasets --upgrade --quiet
WARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.3, however version 20.2.3 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Let's begin by downloading the data, and listing the files within the dataset.

# Change this
dataset_url = 'https://www.kaggle.com/uciml/student-alcohol-consumption?select=student-mat.csv' 
import opendatasets as od
od.download(dataset_url)
Please provide your Kaggle credentials to download this dataset. Learn more: http://bit.ly/kaggle-creds Your Kaggle username: rajarsa Your Kaggle Key: ········ Downloading student-alcohol-consumption.zip to .\student-alcohol-consumption
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