This repository contains the data and code behind the September 5, 2014 BuzzFeed News post, "Five Sunday Morning Show Guests Whose Stars Are Rising."
The data — data/guests.csv — comes from The New York Times's The Upshot, via researchers at American University. The Upshot kindly cleaned the data and published it to a GitHub repository, which is the basis for this analysis.
A Python script, scripts/find-trending-guests.py, counts the total number of appearances per guest, per year. Next it filters the guests, looking for the following three criteria:
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Guest has appeared at least five times this year (through August 3, the most recent Sunday in the dataset).
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Guest has appeared more times this year than any other year since January 2009.
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Guest's appearances this year account for at least one-third of all of appearances since 2009.
The script has one requirement, pandas.
To execute the script on a Unix operating system, run ./scripts/find-trending-guests.py < data/guests.csv > output/trending-guests.tsv, or simply make findings.