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Capstone Project
Objectives
Under the project study, we are trying to utilize the dataset containing information about a set of
engineering graduates and their employment outcomes to analyse the following few use cases –
Given a new student profile, can we predict his/her annual salary from historic data?
Can we understand what factors in the labor market determine one’s salary? Is it just one’s
skills or there are other factors which influence the return in the labor market? What signals
and biases enter the labor market?
Dataset Introduction
The entire data is collected from Aspiring Minds' Employment Outcomes 2015. The dataset contains
various information about a set of engineering candidates and their employment outcomes. For every
candidate, the data contains both the profile information along with their employment outcome
information. Candidate Profile Information includes:
Scores on Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT – a standardized test of job skills. The test includes cognitive,
domain and personality assessments
Personal information like gender, date of birth, etc.
Pre-university information like high school grades, high school location
University information like GPA, college major, college reputation proxy.
Demographic information like location of college, candidates’ permanent location
Random AMCAT takers were surveyed via email wherein they provided information on the dependent
variables in this dataset – the jobs they are in and their corresponding annual salaries. Corresponding
independent information about the candidates was recorded at the time of them taking AMCAT.
Dataset Source: http://research.aspiringminds.com/resources/#ameo