CLASS PLACEMENT RATE: WHAT DOES THE DATA TELL US?

I came across a class placement dataset recently on Kaggle. I wanted to carry out EDA analysis on the data and also practice my skills in machine learning. The dataset looks at the placement rate if students based on multiple criteria such as gender, degree taken in the university, if such students have an MBA with a specialization etc. For the context of my visualization in tableau, I examined several questions, some of which you can find below as well as the insights I was able to derive from the data.

a) What is the proportion of the placement rate?

A lot of students were able to secure a placements with industries. From the visualization, we can see that about 70% of students were able to secure placements as against the 30% who were not placed.

b) Do students who have previous work experience have an edge over students who don’t?

Work experience doesn’t seem to have an impact on students being placed. The visualization tells us however that students with no work experience had higher placement rate than students with work experience. On the other hand, students with work experience had a lower rate of not being placed (5%) compared with student with no work experience (27%).

c) What’s the likelihood of men getting placed compared to women?

Men are two times likely to get placed compared to women. This in itself is something that is still quite prevalent today across various industries.

d) What is the maximum salary distribution by gender?

Just as men were two times more likely to get a job placement, they were also likely to get more salary when compared to their female counterparts.

e) What is the placement distribution based on the degree obtained while in school?

Communications and Management had by far the highest placement rate compared to the other two, Science & Technology and Others. This could be due to a high demand for Communication and Management across industries in a particular period of time.

To view my complete visualization or download my tableau workbook, please visit https://public.tableau.com/profile/oluwafunmilayo8574#!/vizhome/PlacementData_16066821447100/Workexperience