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daily_show_guests: Every Guest Jon Stewart Ever Had On 'The Daily Show'

Description

The raw data behind the story "Every Guest Jon Stewart Ever Had On 'The Daily Show'" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/every-guest-jon-stewart-ever-had-on-the-daily-show/.

Usage

daily_show_guests

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 2693 rows representing guests and 5 variables:

year

The year the episode aired

google_knowledge_occupation

Their occupation or office, according to Google's Knowledge Graph or, if they're not in there, how Stewart introduced them on the program.

show

Air date of episode. Not unique, as some shows had more than one guest

group

A larger group designation for the occupation. For instance, us senators, us presidents, and former presidents are all under "politicians"

raw_guest_list

The person or list of people who appeared on the show, according to Wikipedia. The GoogleKnowledge_Occupation only refers to one of them in a given row.