5.1.1. Data translation
To transform the data into a more understandable format, the data were translated into English and all the records
were combined into a single table. This process was performed using JAVA code developed for this purpose. The
resulting data file was an Excel spreadsheet with 203 records and 57 attributes, in which each row represented one
student and the columns represented graduation year, student ID, course code, and GPA. Table 1 shows an example
of the data set after the translation.