Fe Y Alegría
Bolivia
One of my favorite data analytics courses at SJU was the Data Mining Service Learning Course that I took Fall of 2020. A service learning course is just like any other college course, but with an additional 6-week long project in service.
My class worked with Fe y Alegría in Bolivia. Fe y Alegría is a Jesuit run non-profit organization that creates programs for underprivileged school students throughout Latin America.
For this project, we cleaned student survey data to determine which schools were most impoverished and in need of better and more targeted programs to support their needs. We started with a large, disorganized data set in Spanish and were able to clean the data, format and interpret it for meaningful insights.
We then got the opportunity to present our findings. My group specifically, gave the director and his colleagues our recommendations from the insights we gathered from the data (all virtually AND with a language barrier!)
Excerpts from our presentation…
Introduction slide
Introduction slide: Agenda
Introduction slide: how we defined poverty
Introduction slide: How we determined what schools and students were in greater need
Introduction slide: The survey questions we focused our analyses on
Three schools we identified with the overall most need based on our findings.
At home access to water: For the survey questions we focused on, we identified the top schools that indicated the most need for that specific survey question. This slide focuses on 3 survey questions regarding water access (sewage system, shower in home, running water access).
At Home access to water: Analyses for top need schools in terms of at home access to water (appendix to previous slide).
Our recommendations to stakeholders
