The analysis in this repository accompanies the BuzzFeed News article, "If Jeff Sessions Exits, Trump Could Choose An Acting Attorney General From Among Thousands Of People," published July 25, 2017. It counts the number of Department of Justice employees who, as of the end of March 2017, had attained a pay grade of GS-15, the highest grade on the General Schedule pay scale.
This repository contains three components:
- The input data, which comes directly and entirely from the "FedScope Employment Cube (March 2017)" file published by the Office of Personnel Management.
- The analysis code and description, available here.
- The output files generated by the analysis, available here.
To reproduce the findings, you'll need to do the following:
- Ensure that you have Jupyter, Python, and the pandas data-analysis library installed.
- Unzip the
data/fedscope-data-2017-03.zipfile in this repository. - Use Jupyter to run the
notebooks/analysis.ipynbnotebook.
Contact Jeremy Singer-Vine at jeremy.singer-vine@buzzfeed.com.
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