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On Twitter the other day, Philip Cohen put up some data on changes in Bachelor’s degrees awarded between 1995 and 2015. The data come from the National Center for Education Statistics. It seemed like a good candidate for drawing as a figure, so I had a go at it: Changes in the number of Bachelor's degrees awarded over the past twenty years. Afterwards, I was messing around with the data and wanted to draw some time-series plots for the various subject areas the NCES tracks.
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