Author: Darragh
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NZIEC 2017: Some reflections on a whirlwind trip to Auckland.
On the flight back to Australia, I got the opportunity to reflect a little on the New Zealand International Education Conference I had just attended in Auckland. Overall, a fun, though slightly tiring, slog across the Tasman. I got to meet a heap of new people in and around the conference and was lucky enough…
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Let the good times roll: March student visa statistics indicate continued growth in Australian international education.
Just last week, it happened that I was sitting at home in front of my laptop with a glass of red wine in my hand when I noted the Department of Immigration and Border Protection had released their latest visa statistics on international students. This sounds a tad depressing in retrospect, but the mood did…
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The Data Game: Building Analytics Capability in International Education
[Originally published by IEAA’s Vista Magazine (Summer 2016/17) — I’d strongly recommend following them online and reading their publications if you’re interested in Australian international education!] Embracing an analytic mindset and capitalising on the technologies in the era of big data are key to reaching Australia’s strategic international education goals, writes Darragh Murray. A tale of prediction…
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Tableau tricks: Adding colour to geomaps by continent or region
Tableau is a great tool for data visualisation. One major selling point of the product is its excellent mapping tools which make building visualisation fun and interpreting data a hell of a lot easier than in a flat table. Recently, I was attempting to replicate a neat visualisation I saw on the Guardian’s data blog.…
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Time to embrace data-driven decision making in Australian international higher education
Hi all, this is an older article from 2015 where I presented on the topic of data-driven decision making in Australian international higher education. It’s slightly out of date now, but I’ve published it for posterity’s sake. Originally published in October 2015. *** Somewhat ironically, I went with my gut-feeling when I argued that most…
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IIE release next iteration of Open Doors data
It’s International Education Week in the United States and that has prompted the Institute of International Education (“IIE”), America’s premier professional association for international education research, to release the next iteration of the Open Doors report. For those in the know, the Open Doors report is a vital tool for measuring the flow of students…