SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO -
DATA MINING ON PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
THE PROJECT
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As a service project in my data mining course, our class worked with the Saint Vincent de Paul Society of Buffalo to determine which interest areas the society should put money towards. We were mining data from the 2016 and 2015 results of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance surveys for Buffalo public schools. Each student in class received instructions to focus on one of eight specific interest areas. At the end of the semester the results were presented to Saint Vincent de Paul Society.
MY ROLE
The interest area given to me was parental involvement. I cleaned the data given to us in such a way to make it be the most useful for my topic. I focused on four main attributes and used them to calculate a goal attribute for my data. I then used the WEKA data mining program to conduct classification and association mining on the data. Based on these results, I was able to determine which attributes of the surveys were most relevant to the effect the level of parental involvement had to Buffalo public school students. This was then combined with the other students' findings and presented to the Saint Vincent de Paul Society.