Dando voz aos silenciados: Utilização de mineração de dados para entender a evasão na Faculdade de Computação da UFU

Abstract

Technological advancement has allowed countless information to be stored. Data mining is a multidisciplinary area of Computer Science that allows us to translate this data into useful information, improving predictions of results and analyzing hitherto unknown rela- tionships. The public educational system stores countless information about students for possible needs to retrieve academic records or financial statements. This data has not yet been analysed, using its accumulation over decades to understand what is happening to students and calculate the impact of implemented policies. This research aims to gather information from UFU Computer Science Faculty about students contained in databases spread across administrative areas of UFU to find out which factors may affect the suc- cessful completion of graduation, which may serve to, in the future, combat problems such as school dropout and retention.