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/fivethirtyeight/daily-show-guests/

https://datahub.io/fivethirtyeight/daily-show-guests/_r/-/README.md

https://datahub.io/fivethirtyeight/daily-show-guests/_r/-/data/daily_show_guests.csv

https://datahub.io/fivethirtyeight/daily-show-guests/_r/-/datapackage.json

Key Files

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datapackage.json— metadata & schema

https://datahub.io/fivethirtyeight/daily-show-guests/_r/-/datapackage.json

README.md— documentation

https://datahub.io/fivethirtyeight/daily-show-guests/_r/-/README.md

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Header	Definition
`YEAR`	The year the episode aired
`GoogleKnowlege_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 GoogleKnowlege_Occupation only refers to one of them in a given row.

Source: Google Knowlege Graph, The Daily Show clip library, Wikipedia.