Problem
Expected Duration: 5-8 hours

Former President Bill Clinton said in his speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte in 2012:
"Since 1961, for 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24. In those 52 years, our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million)." In the packed convention hall, it was one of the nightâ€™s biggest applause lines.
Did he have his facts right? Your project is to convince the grader whether Clinton was right or wrong. We provide you a formatted copy of the file BLS_private.csv ,which is a download from the from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov).
Data in the file are in thousands. Clinton probably got his data from an article on bloomberg.com http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-08/private-jobs- increase-more-with-democrats-in-white-house.html (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05- 08/private-jobs-increase-more-with-democrats-in-white-house.html.) that is no longer publicly available as far as we can tell. Bloomberg's writer got their data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov) at the U.S. Department of Laborâ€”the definitive, non-partisan source of jobs data. In the quote above you can see that he refers to private employment data, â€œseasonally adjustedâ€. The data can be found at http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ce (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ce) if you check the box â€œTotal Private Employment.â€
You then need to select the years starting in 1961 up to 2012. The result is an MS Excel file that can be saved in comma-separated values format (csv). You should verify that we are providing you the correct data.
You need data on the presidents in the specified time period so that you can check Clinton's statement. What data do you need? Part of your task is to figure out what data you need. You will have to research the presidents to gather data and store it in a file that you create called presidents.txt.
Your presidents.txt file cannot have any jobs data in itâ€”all jobs data must come from the BLS_private.csv file. Your presidents.txt file will simply be a file of words and numbers that you can create using a simple text editor.
Your task is to analyze and synthesize the input from the BLS_private.csv and your presidents.txt file to see if you can verify or discredit Clintonâ€™s statement.
There are a number of implicit challenges such as 'What does Clinton mean by â€œproducedâ€?' and other ideas open for interpretation.

You may ask what output we expect from your program. That is purposefully unspecified--you decide what is the most effective way to make your point. You need sufficient output to show that YOU have verified or discredited Clintonâ€™s assertion. Simply saying â€œverifiedâ€ (or not) is not sufficient: justify your assertion. Simply quoting other articles will earn you 0 points, regardless of effort. Your code, your comments, and your output need to convince the grader that *YOU* solved the problem with understandable code that answered the question being asked.
Submission
Submit two files. Only the specified file names are acceptable:

1. main.py
2. your presidents.txt
Notes
1. The provided BLS csv data file is cleaned up, and should be straightforward to use with any of the various python modules you might consider using.
2. You choose which data structures you want to use in analyzing your data--that is not specified for you. However, we do not expect you to use classes.
3. Note that two presidents did not complete their terms and that may change the numbers a bit. A correction might affect the results.

Problem Expected Duration: 5-8 hours Former President Bill Clin...