I am doing this analysis to see if there is a correlation between In State Tuition and the Average ACT Score of accepted students.

library(arules)
## Loading required package: Matrix
## 
## Attaching package: 'arules'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
## 
##     abbreviate, write
educ <- read.csv("/Users/kimberlyhatlestad/Data Mining/Educ4HW.csv")
head(educ)
##                     College State Public MathSAT VerbSAT ACT Received
## 1       Christendom College    VA      0     568     568  23       81
## 2      Mount Vernon College    DC      0     440     402  20      149
## 3            King's College    NY      0     442     465  25      356
## 4 Alaska Pacific University    AK      0     490     482  20      193
## 5     Sierra Nevada College    NV      0     400     400  21      200
## 6           Trinity College    DC      0     470     480  22      247
##   Accepted Enrolled Pct10 Pct25 FTUG PTUG ISTuit OSTuit Books PhDs SFRatio
## 1       72       51    33    71  139    3   8730   8730   400   92     9.3
## 2       70       61    15    35  203  138  13780  13780   500   84     5.7
## 3      233       53    16    24  246   18   8190   8190   500  100     7.0
## 4      146       55    16    44  249  869   7560   7560   800   76    11.9
## 5      160      100     5    25  300   50   7500   7500   500   45     7.5
## 6      189      100    19    49  309  639  11412  11412   500   89     8.3

Getting rid of alphanumeric variables State and School Name.

educ <- educ[,-2]
head(educ)
##                     College Public MathSAT VerbSAT ACT Received Accepted
## 1       Christendom College      0     568     568  23       81       72
## 2      Mount Vernon College      0     440     402  20      149       70
## 3            King's College      0     442     465  25      356      233
## 4 Alaska Pacific University      0     490     482  20      193      146
## 5     Sierra Nevada College      0     400     400  21      200      160
## 6           Trinity College      0     470     480  22      247      189
##   Enrolled Pct10 Pct25 FTUG PTUG ISTuit OSTuit Books PhDs SFRatio
## 1       51    33    71  139    3   8730   8730   400   92     9.3
## 2       61    15    35  203  138  13780  13780   500   84     5.7
## 3       53    16    24  246   18   8190   8190   500  100     7.0
## 4       55    16    44  249  869   7560   7560   800   76    11.9
## 5      100     5    25  300   50   7500   7500   500   45     7.5
## 6      100    19    49  309  639  11412  11412   500   89     8.3
set.seed(1)
grpeduc<-kmeans(educ[,-1],centers=8,nstart=10)
Cluseduc<-cbind(educ,cluster=grpeduc$cluster)
head(Cluseduc)
##                     College Public MathSAT VerbSAT ACT Received Accepted
## 1       Christendom College      0     568     568  23       81       72
## 2      Mount Vernon College      0     440     402  20      149       70
## 3            King's College      0     442     465  25      356      233
## 4 Alaska Pacific University      0     490     482  20      193      146
## 5     Sierra Nevada College      0     400     400  21      200      160
## 6           Trinity College      0     470     480  22      247      189
##   Enrolled Pct10 Pct25 FTUG PTUG ISTuit OSTuit Books PhDs SFRatio cluster
## 1       51    33    71  139    3   8730   8730   400   92     9.3       8
## 2       61    15    35  203  138  13780  13780   500   84     5.7       3
## 3       53    16    24  246   18   8190   8190   500  100     7.0       8
## 4       55    16    44  249  869   7560   7560   800   76    11.9       8
## 5      100     5    25  300   50   7500   7500   500   45     7.5       8
## 6      100    19    49  309  639  11412  11412   500   89     8.3       3
o=order(grpeduc$cluster)
data.frame(educ$ISTuit[o],grpeduc$cluster[o])
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Creating the plot to show the different clusters.

summary(educ$ISTuit)
##    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
##     608    4103    9600    9187   12820   24940
plot(educ$ISTuit,educ$ACT,type="n",xlim=c(3000,18000),xlab="In State Tuition",ylab="Average ACT Score") 
text(x=educ$ISTuit,y=educ$ACT,labels=educ$College,col=rainbow(8)[grpeduc$cluster])

Here you can see a slight positive correlation between In State Tuition and Average ACT scores for accepted students. I would like to have a more spread out plot to clearer see the separations between the clusters, seeing as how this plot shows a lot of overlap between the two groups.