{"id":33248,"date":"2025-03-29T22:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/worldwide-presidents-and-their-non-presidential-occupations-fields-of-study\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:27:30","slug":"worldwide-presidents-and-their-non-presidential-occupations-fields-of-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/worldwide-presidents-and-their-non-presidential-occupations-fields-of-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide Presidents And Their Non-presidential Occupations\/fields Of Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hi,<br \/> A while ago, I had a very specific question &#8211; what former profession is a president (or any publicly elected head of country) most likely to have? I thought it could be fun and a good way to learn some basics of data processing. But where do I even start?<br \/> My initial idea was to scrape off the relevant information off wikipedia or wikidata, but i can&#8217;t find a good way to do it. any advice? any pre-existing dataset that could work for this?<br \/> i have experience in python coding but have never done anything similar, any resources would help.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/nee_chee\"> \/u\/nee_chee <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1jmvrga\/worldwide_presidents_and_their_nonpresidential\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1jmvrga\/worldwide_presidents_and_their_nonpresidential\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-33248 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='33248' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-33248 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-33248 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, A while ago, I had a very specific question &#8211; what former profession is a president&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}