Passa à Primeira: free data visualization with a focus on user privacy
From personal experience with driving schools, I saw that the incentives are not aligned to provide students with the best learning experience.
Schools are forced to choose between providing more dedicated support or accommodating more students - this creates a push for increasingly lower prices.
Tools like this one, allow schools to highlight their quality and enable students to make better decisions.
This application allows you visualise the IMT approval rates on a map in three steps:
1 - Search by municipality
2 - Click on the red markers
3 - View the complete school profile
If you know the school name, you can also search directly.
Data source
From 2015 to 2021, including all categories (driving, motorcycle, etc.) and only first-time passes. The approval rate is the number of approved exams over the total number of exams done.
The Portuguese law says that (decreto-lei n.º 14/2014, de 18 de março) IMT should publish approval rates regularly. Since the initial publication in 2015, these data have not been updated, despite freedom of information acts and a complaint to the Ombudsman.
During the year 2021, the data were finally made public, making initiatives like this one possible.
Open Source
For a matter of transparency and reproducibility, we have published the code used to extract the data in open-source format:
Approval rates Addresses and IMT license
To make initiatives like this one easier, the approval rates can be imported into a Jupyter Notebook:
Privacy and GDPR
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