Humanistic courses are a requirement of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes for all its students, who must take at least three courses from different disciplines during their career to graduate. The courses offered are a way in which students from different careers can relate to each other, and in this way, develop comprehensively. These courses are offered year after year with minimal change as to which courses and at what times they are offered. The studies regarding the real demand of the students are almost non-existent, and for the same reason the courses offered do not always serve to meet the demand of the students, who find themselves in the need to take courses that they normally do not attend. would sign up to meet the requirements. In addition to the needs of the students, the problem of course management arises, where a process is carried out for the registration of courses to be offered, publication and courses and management of written students.
For years the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes has aimed to create professionals with comprehensive training in all aspects of their life, which is why it has insisted that its students take courses outside their area and with students from other careers. so that in this way they have knowledge in other areas and meet people from other careers with interests in common with them. This is why the University made the decision to create humanistic training courses, which are a set of courses that seek to expand the knowledge of university students in areas that are not normally studied in their careers but that are of interest. of some students.
Every year a considerable number of courses are opened in two modalities, intensive courses, which are opened in inter-semester periods for three weeks, and extensive courses, which are courses that cover the entire semester. The investment made to be able to have this offer is too great, from hiring teachers for each course to the materials consumed during them. The courses that are opened year after year vary very little, since the study plans or the courses to be taught are rarely radically modified; This is done with little or no consideration of the general opinion of the university community, since despite the demand that this generates, the courses remain static in terms of supply. This generates a large number of problems, since many courses are offered 0000-0003-1720-0554 (H. Muñoz-Bautista); 0000-0001-8762-5780 (M. Ortiz-Esparza); 0000-0002-3635-7592 (J. Muñoz-Arteaga); 0000-0002-6429-5675 (C. Acra-Despradel); 0000-0002-8621-7942 (K. Villalba-Condori) © 2023 Copyright for this paper by its authors.
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CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) that are only filled with students who enter only to meet the university's requirements and not because they would really like to take the course; On the other hand, there are courses that have excessive demand and of which only one or two groups are opened per period, regardless of the fact that there are a large number of students who are left out of said courses due to lack of places to take them.
It is for this reason that the decision was made to carry out a study, through surveys of current students at the university, about which courses they would really like to take, at what times and in what modality of those offered. This is with the intention of analyzing whether the courses that are opened efficiently satisfy the demand of the student community, as well as to see which are the courses that are really demanded by the students, which are those that are opened unnecessarily, and which are They are the ones who should expand their offer. Everything is done with the aim of the university improving the current offer of humanistic training courses so that it really satisfies the demand of the students, and that this requirement really meets the purpose for which it was created.
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such as Weka is in constant development due to the growing demand for data to be processed,
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Regarding data search, many algorithms have been proposed that allow for agile queries of
large data sets. The improvement in search speed, as well as in obtaining information, is thanks
to indices that have been developed as B, B+ trees or hash tables, which are types of structures
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The state of the art is constantly evolving because, as mentioned in previous points, the data handled is increasing exponentially, which is why the development of increasingly sophisticated, precise, agile and optimized algorithms is promoted. [18].
Currently, no field study has been carried out regarding the humanistic courses at the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, the few modifications that are made in the study plans or in their offer are based solely on the registrations that are made during the previous periods. This is one of the worst ways to carry out this analysis, since many students enter courses in which they have no interest, but still enroll to fulfill the course requirements; this results in an inefficient course offering for the university community.
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Weka is a software tool widely used in the field of data mining and machine learning. Weka,
named after "Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis", was developed at the University of
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clustering and prediction algorithms, with the option of being able to combine algorithms with
each other to obtain a better result.; however regardless of the approach taken for it, asides from
the requirements of implementation to cover and the selection criteria according to the problem
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characteristics that it will provide.[
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branches of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science provide the basis for the development of
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To carry out this study, 680 surveys were carried out randomly among students from all possible centers and careers to form a statistical sample about which humanistic courses have a real demand. The survey was designed to collect the following types of data: • Edad [18-25] • Sexo [M - F] • Carrera [Tipificados] • Turno [M - V] • Horario del curso [M V S] • Tipo del curso [I E A] • Curso que tomaría [Tipificados]
General information about the students is requested, such as age; obtaining a range of between 18 and 25 years among the respondents; sex, career; Students could select from the university's list of majors to avoid a problem in capturing the major's name and a subsequent problem in data cleaning; shift; morning (M) or afternoon (F) according to your class schedule; course schedule; The university offers morning (M), afternoon (V) and Saturday (S) schedules for humanist courses; type of course; Within the courses there is an intensive (I) and extensive (E) modality, so students could select the modality of their preference or both (A); and the course they would take; the list of courses offered by the university is taken.
The surveys were carried out within the university city to cover the current university population. It was sought that most of the students interviewed were within the first semesters of their degrees, thus ensuring that the answers were as close to reality as possible, since during this period, most students are studying or finishing to complete this requirement.
Once the 680 surveys were completed, the information obtained was cleaned, since there were several entries with missing data, which were filled with the average data, and the information was emptied into a database.
Once the complete database was available, we proceeded to choose which data were necessary and which would only get in the way when carrying out a data mining process; It was determined that the data chosen initially were those necessary to correctly carry out the study that was wanted to be carried out and therefore no fields were eliminated.
The database was then moved to a file with an. arff extension, which briefly described the type of data used and all the instances in the registry.
Using the weka program, the data was analyzed. The knowledge base was clustered using the EM algorithm, because when this procedure was carried out through KMEANS the error obtained was too large, which is why it was determined that the best way to classify this base was through the EM algorithm.
After carrying out said clustering, the results were analyzed using the graphs that were shown to us as a result. Of these graphs, there are 3 that attract attention. The first is the one that shows the sex (Y) with respect to the course they choose (X).
From this graph it can be determined that the courses: Ballroom Dancing, Photography, Gastronomy, Graphology, Yoga and Zumba, are the focuses of interest for the female population of the University, since it is where about 75% of those interviewed said that I would take one of those courses if possible. On the other hand, men only have a very weak focus of interest in the Gastronomy course, since their population is distributed more homogeneously in all courses, without having much inclination for anyone.
The next graph of interest was the one that shows the career (Y) with respect to the course they choose (X).
In this graph it can be seen that the majors from the Economics and Administration center have a tendency to enter the Gastronomy and Photography courses, while those from the other centers have a greater tendency to enter the Ballroom Dance, Yoga courses. and Zumba.
Finally, the last graph of interest is the graph that shows the type of course (Y) with respect to the course they choose (X).
In this graph you can see how the most requested type of course, for Gastronomy, Ballroom Dancing, Zumba and Yoga, is extensive and not intensive as would have been expected. However, for the other courses, the intensive period is the most requested to carry it out.
After an exhaustive analysis of the different results obtained through the weka program to the knowledge base, it was determined that currently the most requested courses by the university community are the Gastronomy, Ballroom Dance and Zumba courses, but these courses They do not open a sufficient number of places to satisfy the large number of demand they have, so students have to look for other courses of less interest but that are also filled, such as Yoga, Graphology and Art with clay; However, even with these courses, student demand continues to be greater than the number of places needed, so finally students resort to courses that are not of interest to them but still have places to take them.
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