1. MSBO Certification course Rob Dickinson, MPAAA Executive Director
Data Mining
MSBO Certification course
Rob Dickinson, MPAAA Executive Director

2. Data Mining Session Agenda Sources of data
Data Mining tools/techniques
XML editors
Working with Access
Working with Excel
Questions

3. Data Mining How to data mine? No single answer
Dig into data, looking for
Patterns you haven’t seen before
Breaks in existing patterns
Always looking for ‘Why?’
Goal of data mining is to better understand the data you have, so you can make better inferences from it.
Example: GRPS 9th Grade elevated enrollment - Don’t fully explain
Ask group: What would you do to try to figure that out?
Explain
Example: 2005 challenge from Superintendent – Each school to enroll 10 new students (80 schools)
Principals all produced lists of new student in their schools, District enrollment still down.
How would you data mine that?
Most of this session, is giving you tools and techniques for data mining, take through some examples.

4. Data Mining Sources of Data Your SIS CEPI submission downloads
MiSchoolData
Other sources

5. Sources of Data Your SIS Details not captured any other place
Attendance details
Historical data
Discipline data not meeting reporting threshold
Other?

6. Sources of Data CEPI Submission Downloads
Files submitted and edited during submission process
NOT just submitted files
CEPI staging area
CEPI clears staging area annually

7. Sources of Data
CEPI MSDS login

8. Sources of Data MiSchoolData Site maintained by CEPI
Public AND Private data
Primarily summarized, charted data

9. Sources of Data MiSchoolData login https://www.mischooldata.org/
Sample problems: #1
9th and 10th grade enrollment dropped at GRPS in 2003/04, can you figure out why?
Look at 2004/05, all grades comparison, trend
#2:
It’s spring on 2013/14 at GRPS, and my Superintendent wants to know if I can accurately predict how many residents will go to other Districts next year. Can I? How? Would I have been right?
Look at Non-resident Status in 13/14 for whole District K-12, all non-resident reasons, trend.
Then shift to 14/15 to see if I was right.
Emphasize “Data files” under “Other Data”

10. Sources of Data Other sources?
What other sources of data have you used? Where do you go to get data?

11. Data Mining Tools XML editors
Best for opening, reviewing specific data
Not really data extraction tool

12. XML Editors XML editors XML Notepad Notepad ++ Free applications
Simple interface

13. XML Editors
XML editors
XML Notepad
Notepad ++

14. XML Editors XML Notepad Notepad ++ CEPI Data Validation Guide
XML_validation_guide_357832_7.pdf

15. XML Editors
(open sample file in XML Notepad)

16. Working with MS Access MS Access Powerful database program
Easy to create queries, reports
Not included in all versions of MS Office
Steeper learning curve that Excel
How many use Access? Do you like it? Thoughts for those not into it yet?

17. MS Access (open sample file in MS Access) Data Mining.accdb
Explain structure - tables, queries, forms, reports
Explain sample data tables
Stucourse – Open and work with
Add numbergrade and comp status
Compute average GPA by course
Compute same for 9th grade only
Percent failed by teacher
Excel exporter

18. MS Access Testcnt: iif([field being evaluated]=“test condition”,1,0)
“Sum” in Total row

19. MS Access Failcnt: iif([comp status]=“failed condition”,0,1)
“Sum” in Total row

20. Working with MS Excel Excel Spreadsheet program Easy to use
Pivot tables – Very powerful
As powerful as Access, easier to use
How many use Excel? Do you like it? Thoughts for those not into it yet?
How many have used Pivot tables?
How many are scared of pivot tables?
Excel training at Spring Conference – Janell teaching intermediate level

21. MS Excel (open sample file in Excel) Data Mining.xlsx
Show how to add number grades, comp status
Show how to add pivot table
Compute average GPA by course
Compute same for 9th grade only
Number failed by teacher

22. MS Excel Nested IF statements =if(c3=‘A’,4,’error’)
Show how to add number grades, comp status
Show how to add pivot table
Compute average GPA by course
Compute same for 9th grade only
Number failed by teacher

23. MS Excel Nested IF statements =if(c3=“A”,4,”error”)
Condition (the thing being tested)
Show how to add number grades, comp status
Show how to add pivot table
Compute average GPA by course
Compute same for 9th grade only
Number failed by teacher

24. MS Excel Nested IF statements =if(c3=“A”,4,”error”)
Value to show if the condition is true
Show how to add number grades, comp status
Show how to add pivot table
Compute average GPA by course
Compute same for 9th grade only
Number failed by teacher

25. MS Excel Nested IF statements =if(c3=“A”,4,”error”)
Value to show if the condition is false
Show how to add number grades, comp status
Show how to add pivot table
Compute average GPA by course
Compute same for 9th grade only
Number failed by teacher

26. MS Excel Nested IF statements =if(c3=“A”,4,if(c3=“B”,3,”error”))
Copied whole line (after the ‘=‘), pasted in place of ‘Error’, changed condition and result if true
Show how to add number grades, comp status
Show how to add pivot table
Compute average GPA by course
Compute same for 9th grade only
Number failed by teacher

27. MS Excel Nested IF statements
=if(c3=“A”,4,if(c3=“B”,3,if(c3=“C”,2,”e rror”)))
Copied it again, changed condition and result if true
Show how to add number grades, comp status
Show how to add pivot table
Compute average GPA by course
Compute same for 9th grade only
Number failed by teacher

28. MS Excel Nested IF statements
=if(c3=“A”,4,if(c3=“B”,3,if(c3=“C”,2,if( c2=“D”,1,”error”))))
Copied it again, changed condition and result if true
Show how to add number grades, comp status
Show how to add pivot table
Compute average GPA by course
Compute same for 9th grade only
Number failed by teacher

29. MS Excel Nested IF statements
=if(c3=“A”,4,if(c3=“B”,3,if(c3=“C”,2,if( c2=“D”,1,if(c2=“F”,0,”error”)))))
Finished! Note that number of closing parenthesis must equal # of ‘if’ statements
Show how to add number grades, comp status
Show how to add pivot table
Compute average GPA by course
Compute same for 9th grade only
Number failed by teacher

30. MS Excel
‘$’ Special character in Excel Suppresses reference movement when you copy & paste

31. MS Excel Pivot tables Makes Excel into a database tool
ALMOST eliminates the need for Access (almost!)

32. Getting Help CEPI Helpdesk (517) 335-0505, Option 3 cepi@michigan.gov
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