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Add data on presidential commencement speeches
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Article Date(s) | Headline(s) | Folder
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May 11, 2016 | [Sitting Presidents Give Way More Commencement Speeches Than They Used To](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/sitting-presidents-give-way-more-commencement-speeches-than-they-used-to/) | `presidential-commencement-speeches`
March 30, 2016 | [How Trump Hacked The Media](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-donald-trump-hacked-the-media/) | `trump-news`
March 10, 2016 | [These Are The Phrases Each GOP Candidate Repeats Most](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/these-are-the-phrases-each-gop-candidate-repeats-most) | `repeated-phrases-gop`
Feb. 2, 2016 | [Iowa Teaches Pollsters To Poll Until The End](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/iowa-teaches-pollsters-to-poll-until-the-end/) | `poll-of-pollsters`

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### Presidential commencement speeches
The data behind the story [Sitting Presidents Give Way More Commencement Speeches Than They Used To](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/sitting-presidents-give-way-more-commencement-speeches-than-they-used-to/), not including commencement speeches by President Obama in 2016
Header | Definition
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`president` | Number of president (33 is Harry Truman, the 33rd president; 44 is Barack Obama, the 44th president)
`president_name` | Name of president
`title` | Description of commencement speech
`date` | Date speech was delivered
`city` | City where speech was delivered
`state` | state where speech was delivered
`building` | Name of building in which speech was delivered
`room` | Room in which speech was delivered
Source: [American Presidency Project](http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/), Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley

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