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+## Internal documentation
+
+### Interacting with unstable data
+
+We use data from the `unstable/positions.csv` file in a legislature's
+directory to display cabinet memberships on the website. Because this data
+is unstable there currently aren't methods in [the `everypolitician`
+gem](https://github.com/everypolitician/everypolitician-ruby) for
+interacting with it, so viewer-sinatra has some of its own classes for
+dealing with it. These classes live in the
+`lib/everypolitician_extensions.rb` file and are documented below.
+
+#### Get all cabinet memberships for a person
+
+To print all of the known cabinet memberships for a person, you can do the
+following:
+
+```ruby
+house_of_commons = Everypolitician::Index.new.country('UK').legislature('Commons')
+person = house_of_commons.popolo.persons.find_by(name: 'Gordon Brown')
+
+person.cabinet_memberships.each do |membership|
+  puts "#{person.name} was #{membership.label} #{membership.start_date} - #{membership.end_date}"
+end
+```
+
+Which will output something like this:
+
+```
+Gordon Brown was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2007-06-27 - 2010-05-11
+Gordon Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer 1997-05-02 - 2007-06-27
+```
 
 ## Sinatra, SASS, styling