The data used in this notebook is from a portugese secondary school. The data includes academic and personal characteristics of the students as well as final grades. The task is a regression problem and we have to predict the final grade of a student from the given student information.
P. Cortez and A. Silva. Using Data Mining to Predict Secondary School Student Performance. In A. Brito and J. Teixeira Eds., Proceedings of 5th FUture BUsiness TEChnology Conference (FUBUTEC 2008) pp. 5-12, Porto, Portugal, April, 2008, EUROSIS, ISBN 978-9077381-39-7. Web Link