hackuta-23 / gradedistribution

Interactive Visualization for Grades/GPA from UT Dallas, created @ HackUTA '23

GradeDistribution

Inspiration 🤯

Our app was born from the realization that many students often feel overwhelmed and uncertain about their choices when it comes to class registration. By offering clear, data-driven insights into grade distributions and GPA trends, our app helps students to make confident, informed decisions about their studies

What it does 💡

The "Student Grade Distribution Application" offers an intuitive visualization of grade distribution over the years, filterable by courses. Users can not only see the grade spread ranging from A+ to F but can also track the average GPA trend of a course over time. This insight helps students make informed decisions while selecting courses, and faculty can also benefit from understanding grading patterns.

How we built it 🛠️

We extracted raw online data from UT Dallas and loaded the flat files into Python using Google Colab. The primary data processing was achieved with libraries like numpy and pandas. We then visualized the data using matplotlib.

The web application was constructed using Streamlit, chosen for its compatibility with our Python libraries and its ability to quickly create a functional web app. We incorporated a sidebar in the design for organized content presentation.

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Installation Steps

First clone the repository with

git clone https://github.com/HackUTA-23/GradeDistribution.git

Now install all the required libraries with

pip install -r requirements.txt

Now you may notice a couple of python and ipynb files. Here is the file structure for the python files that we will be working with:

Welcome.py
csv/
  | Fall 2017.csv
  | Fall 2018.csv
  | Fall 2019.csv
  | Fall 2020.csv
  | Fall 2021.csv
  | Fall 2022.csv
pages/
  | 1_💯_Grades.py
  | 2_📈_GPA.py
Welcome.py

To start the streamlit application and open it on a localhost server, start welcome.py with:

streamlit run Welcome.py

How it works

The streamlit application is split into multiple pages depending on whether you want to analyze grades or GPA.

The Welcome page is the starting page of the application and the pages under pages/ are used for the data querying and visualization.

The CSV files were obtained from UT Dallas raw grade distribution files and we used pandas and matplotlib to filter and visualize the data.

Contributing and Pull Request

If interested in contributing to our codebase, feel free to check out the issues tab to report your first issue! Also pull requests must be linked to an issue to keep everything tidy 🧹

gradedistribution's Issues

Separate the 'Section' from the 'Course' number

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Yes, the problem is that courses are currently discussed like so: Subject Number section Section. For example, ACCT 2301 section 001.

Describe the solution you'd like
This isn't ideal because it's too much information in one select dropdown. Instead having two separate dropdowns: Subject Number and Section is more ideal because it would be easier to split the two apart.

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