Educational data mining for student placement prediction using machine learning algorithms

Abstract

Data Mining is the process of extracting useful information from large sets of data. Data mining enablesthe users to have insights into the data and make useful decisions out of the knowledge mined from databases. The purpose of higher education organizations is to offer superior opportunities to its students. As with data mining, now-a-days Education Data Mining (EDM) also is considered as a powerful tool in the field of education. It portrays an effective method for mining the student’s performance based on various parameters to predict and analyze whether a student (he/she) will be recruited or not in the campus placement. Predictions are made using the machine learning algorithms J48, Naïve Bayes, Random Forest, and Random Tree in weka tool and Multiple Linear Regression, binomial logistic regression, Recursive Partitioning and Regression Tree (rpart), conditional inference tree (ctree) and Neural Network (nnet) algorithms in R studio. The results obtained from each approaches are then compared with respect to their performance and accuracy levels by graphical analysis. Based on the result, higher education organizations can offer superior training to its students.