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Analyzing the April 2016 Data about the Usage of Sci-Hub
http://ruleofthirds.de/analyzing-scihub-data/
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Correlate with education level (number of people holding a degree or above) #5

Closed CristianCantoro closed 8 years ago

CristianCantoro commented 8 years ago

Hi,

I would expect to see some correlation between, say, the portion of people in a country holding a degree and the number of downloads. can you check it, please?

gedankenstuecke commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I couldn't find any data on the percent of people holding a degree in the World Bank data. But I found this data about % GDP spending on education, which is the closest I got. The data is pretty sparse in principle, but I used the 2009 data which seemed to be most filled.

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There seems to be little correlation between those two. On the Y-Axis you see the Downloads per 1,000 People, corrected for GDP size. If you find data for the % of poeple with a degree I'm happy to run it again. 👍 😃