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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's only 1/2 the stat though...

What countries are the international students coming FROM?

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Following from that - suppose we had that to/from flow data, how could we plot it in an elegant way ? And could imagine more dimensions - for example relative weight of factors influencing choice of where to study?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd want a 2nd chart I'd think with the #1 "from" country for each European country.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

#1 would bias towards bigger countries. Migration flows are often shown as a circle plot - but not so easy to read as a map, and lose spatial relations.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do they even define "international students"? Surely it's not people with an Erasmus or a semester abroad, the numbers are too high for that.

Is it simply student with a foreign nationality?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Probably what it is. Someone on a student Visa or some such.