Massachusetts Student Attendance and Retention
This example displays the file size, row count, and column count of a Massachusetts student attendance and retention dataset. It highlights questions about district attendance, geographic absenteeism patterns, and correlations between retention and absenteeism. The code uses d3.csv to load remote CSV data from a GitHub gist and updates a pre element with the computed summary. It also demonstrates alternative approaches using fetch, async/await, and d3.csvParse, though those are commented out. The dataset originates from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
AI-generated descriptionPublic MA DESE data showing Massaschusetts School Districts student retention.
The original dataset can be found here. This report presents data on grade retention rates in Massachusetts public schools. The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education defines a student retention as: a student who was reported to have repeated the grade in which he or she was enrolled during the previous school year.
What are the most attending districts? Are there geopraphical patterns to absenteeism? Is there a correlations between retention and absenteeism?
Year (quantitative), District Name (Categorical), Chronically Absent (10% or more) (quantitative)