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Nice project! According to NYTimes there are quite a few more short shutdowns than are represented in your data:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/09/us/politics/longest-government-shutdown.html

Besides the current administration, it would be interesting to see the uptime averages for previous administrations as well.

Please refer to the following link

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/anecdote/days/009week_0304.htm

To summarize:

• The new federal government began operation on March 4th

• Congress did not attain quorum until April 6th and conducted no business in the interim

• On April 6th, quorum was satisfied and Congress was able to address its first ever order of business

It is arguable that the time between March 4th and April 6th should be considered downtime.

In addition, the first federal budget was not passed until September 29th of that year. See the following linked document (hard to read because it is written in copperplate, but the source is considered authoritative)

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1656515

For accessibility reasons I have provided an additional source that affirms the above, though less authoritative

https://www2.gwu.edu/~ffcp/exhibit/p8/p8_8.html

It is further arguable that any period in which the federal government is in (limited) operation without a budget and not disbursing funds should be considered for downtime

The Oct 17 furlough happened in 1986, not 1985.

Also, according to news reports such as this one, it was only for half a day and so the span of start..end should only be 4 hours, not 24.

This information should be graphed 👍

I'd really like to see MTTR and MTBF stats so I can set expectations with senior management.

Currently the data point "trump" had an end date set to 'null'. To comply with the 20th Amendment to the US Constitution, this date should be changed to: "2021-01-20T12:00:00-05:00"

It may be interesting to track these statistics against the current and historical congresses also. Currently the 116th US Congress will be the same flat zero as "this year" but it might be good insight to have in the future.

Feb 8 11:00PM EST - Feb 9 9:00AM EST.

No workers were furloughed, but it was still a shutdown technically since the government was unfunded during that period.