Data Story: Update 2

1. A one- or two-sentence tentative lead for your final story, based on the most interesting thing you’ve found in your data so far. You can change your lead later on if you find something more interesting in your data. 
With immigration into Canada on a steady rise, an increase of international post-secondary students can create more competition for Canadian students when applying to University. However, while raw data does suggest that more international students are enrolling in major post-secondary institutions in BC, the majority of students admitted into these universities remain domestic.

 2. A link to an Excel spreadsheet showing a small slice of your data that backs up your lead and could be used as the basis for a Datawrapper chart (more details below). 
Link to my consolidated excel spreadsheet

 3. The name of one expert you could interview for your story. This can be an academic, activist or someone from the agency that produced the data. But it must be a named individual, with job title included. 
One expert that I am hoping to interview is Feng Hou, who works for StatsCan. In February, the Vancouver Sun published an article called "Why Immigrant students prevail at Canadian Universities", that references a study of the share of international students at major BC universities in detail. Talking to Hou could give me some insight about a more specific breakdown of the share of international students. As well, I hope to contact either SFU or Kwantlen's international student admissions as well to get information that will add breadth to my story.

Data Wrapper Test

This is my first chart created in Datawrapper

Data Story: Update 1

The dataset I will be using for my final project is from the BC government website. It is a spreadsheet containing an accumulation of all of the total number of domestic students and international students at each Public BC post secondary institution each year from 2008 through 2013. 

The dataset is detailed excel spreadsheet which contains each University in BC separated by region. As well, the spreadsheet includes a tally of the two types of students (international v. domestic) organized by institution for each individual year. At the bottom of both charts, each year has a total tally by year for international and domestic university students in BC.

My news story will include this data to portray the share of domestic and international students at BC universities. By doing this, the reader will be able to evaluate firstly how the percentage of international and domestic students has increased or decreased over time between 2008 and 2013- this will be presented in the form of a line graph. The reader will also hopefully be able to see which BC Universities accept the most international students versus the least by share, in the form of a bar graph.

The information in this dataset is very straight forward. I didn't understand at first what the 'AY' at the top of the year column meant, but by scrolling to the bottom of the document I could read that it stands for 'Academic Year', so, problem solved.

Some questions I hope to answer with my data are:

1. Has the share of international students enrolling in post secondary schools increased or decreased from 2008-2013? How much?

2. Which institutions accept the most international students (by share)?

3. Which institutions accept the fewest international students (by share)?

4. Which institution accepts the most domestic students by share?

5. What, if anything, does this mean for BC students applying to post secondary schools in the future?