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Which province and major is the cheapest to study in Canada?

The cost of a university degree in Canada is getting steeper as the tuition fees have continue to rise up. From 2006/2007 to 2019/2020, the tuition fees of Saskatchewan, Quebec and Ontario have risen up for more than 50% change. Why tuition is continuing to going up? In the article , “A vicious cycle: Why tuition is so high and will likely keep going up” by Erica Alini for Global News, it discussed several reasons that why tuition fees is so high and talked about what action students and families will take to study in university while tuition fees will likely going up. A June report by RBC authored who is economist Gerard Walsh said that” The major driver of rising tuition is changes in the way universities are funded. In the mid-1970s provincial governments were directly funding three-quarters of the cost of pursuing a university degree. Since 1990, the government’s share of university funding has fallen by nearly half, while the cost of tuition at Canadian universities has ...
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Assignment #4: Data Update 3

Assignment#4: Data Update 3 Chart Unanswered Questions One question that I cannot answer in my chart with the information I have in my data set, is does the tuition fees always growth each year in Canada or there may be a decline or unchanged in some provinces in recent years. In order to get the percentage change of tuition fees that has growth or declined each year in those provinces, I would need to know the dollars of tuition fees there were for each year from 2006 to 2020. My data set does not contain that information so that question remains unanswerable. How would you get the data? In terms of getting this information, I would go online at Statistics Canada’s website and search for tuition fees by provinces. I was able to find the total field of tuition fees each year in Canada. My only concern would be whether the tuition fees that international students have paid contains or not. Then, I could collect those information and see the actually num...
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Assignment #3: Data Update 2

Assignment #3: Data Update 2 Lead Tuition fees for Canadian undergraduate within Canada that have become more expensive over the time and these provinces are surprisingly cheapest. Excel Workbook Link and Explanation My spreadsheet will allow you to access information about the tuition fees changes over the past five years in different provinces. Nova Scotia has the highest tuition fees in the most recent year and it has seen the biggest increase in tuition fees from 2015 to 2020. Also, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec and Yukon are the top three provinces with the cheapest tuition fees. The information I find most interesting is that in Ontario, tuition fees have decrease by 9.9 per cent this year for undergraduate students, but Ontario is still in top three provinces which has the most expensive tuition fees. Original Dataset Link My original dataset . News Story/ Study Link and Brief Summary This article includes similar information I have ...
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My First Datawrapper Chart

This is my first Datawrapper Bar chart. This is my first Dataweapper Line chart.
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Assignment #2: Data Update 1

Assignment #2: Data Update 1 1. What dataset will you use for your final report?  (describe your dataset, include a link to it and claim it at the URL above).         The dataset I am going to be using is called Canadian undergraduate tuition fees by field of study. I got this dataset from Statistics Canada. The dataset includes all fields of study that Canadian undergraduate have studied and paid tuition fees over the past 5 years. 2. Describe the dataset. What kind of data does it contain? The dataset contains aggregated data, based on how much money that students have paid due to the different fields of study and different province of city. It identifies 19 different fields of study that Canadian undergraduate have studied and the average amount of tuition fees have paid over the past 5 years in Canada, Quebec, and British Columbia. 3. Is there anything about your data that you don’t understand?      (i.e. what a column...
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Assignment #1: Data Visualization Analysis

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Data Visualization Analysis Link to visualization: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt3jgAUn4B5/               The data visualization I chose was titled “percentage breakdown of US households.”  It displays about how many people will live together in the America through the different year. As we can see, in 1960, the percentage of family living together is higher than others and through the passing of the years, it has decline. More people are willing to live themselves.                This data visualization did a good job on the use of color. Data visualizer uses the gradient colors to make the chart look pretty and to separate the numbers of people by using the difference colors. So, the reader can easily understand that there are separate and difference column. Moreover, the strong use of color makes the reader to get more attention on the big families such as 5 people, 6 people and ...
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