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Scholar Desertion App for Colombia

The document describes an interactive web app developed to analyze scholar desertion rates across Colombia using data from multiple sources on economic, sociodemographic, health, schools, criminality, and teachers at the municipality level. The app allows users to explore spatial trends in desertion rates, analyze relationships between variables, identify key features related to desertion through machine learning techniques, and benchmark municipality performance in reducing desertion. The overall goal is to provide a tool to help improve resource allocation and public policymaking around reducing scholar dropout rates.

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Scholar Desertion App for Colombia

The document describes an interactive web app developed to analyze scholar desertion rates across Colombia using data from multiple sources on economic, sociodemographic, health, schools, criminality, and teachers at the municipality level. The app allows users to explore spatial trends in desertion rates, analyze relationships between variables, identify key features related to desertion through machine learning techniques, and benchmark municipality performance in reducing desertion. The overall goal is to provide a tool to help improve resource allocation and public policymaking around reducing scholar dropout rates.

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A Data Science Web App to Understand Scholar Desertion in Colombia
Alejandra Castelblanco • Carlos Coy • Daniel Jiménez • Alberto Lagos • Diego Mora • Luis J. Parra % of students in % of students affected children and teen
afternoon sessions by armed conflict fertility rates

Background 1. Exploring Desertion Across Colombia 2. Exploring Desertion and its Relationships
Scholar desertion is an important
phenomenon that affects boys, girls
and teenagers around the globe. Not Scholar desertion occurs
attending school severely impacts differently across distinct
the individual’s possibilities to regions. The Orinoquia and
improve his or her wellbeing. Amazon regions have the
highest desertions rates.
In Colombia, for every 100 children that start school, With the application, it is
only 44 graduate. possible to explore spatial
trends at the departmental With the application, it is possible to analyze relationships between variables and to
Our Proposal: An Interactive Web App and municipal level. explore their behavior in time. The goal is to get acquainted with the problem.
A tool to improve resource allocation and public policy making.

4. Benchmarking Desertion 3. Finding the Most Important Features


+ + Municipality Efficiency
We carried out a K-means clustering for the response variables: desertion and coverage. Then, using
Decision trees, XG-Boost and Random Forest classifiers, we identified relevant features related to desertion.
EXPLORE DATA FIND RELEVANT COMPARE & RANK Villavicencio 100.0%
Cubarral 100.0%
FEATURES Municipalities Tame 97.7%
S. C. Guaroa 96.8%
Data processing El Calvario 91.3%

Data from multiple dimensions at the municipality level was collected:


• Economical • Sociodemographic Using EDA, we can rank and compare the performance of
• Health • Schools municipalities regarding desertion. Efficiency rules take a
• Criminality • Teachers set of inputs (e.g. #teachers and #schools) that produce
We combined data from multiple institutions into one single database a desertion rate. The users can vary their definitions of
available for analysis via AWS, PostgreSQL and Python. efficiency and compare municipality performance. Link to the App: http://13.59.29.168:5000/

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