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  "id": "2002-march-april-from-the-lists",
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  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2002-march-april-from-the-lists.html",
  "year": 2002,
  "month": "March-April",
  "monthNum": 3,
  "headline": "From the Lists",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "NICAR",
  "summary": "A compilation of technical advice from NICAR listservs, covering file transfers, database management in Access, and mapping techniques.",
  "keywords": [
    "Access",
    "Excel",
    "listserv"
  ],
  "topics": [
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    "Technology",
    "Investigative Methods"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "FTP",
    "SPSS",
    "Excel",
    "Access",
    "ArcView"
  ],
  "full_text": "Listserv messages you may have missed between members of NICAR-L. Topics include the benefits of using FTP software over browser downloads for speed and batching files; converting SPSS data to Excel using 'File/Save As'; copying import specifications between Access databases using the 'Get External Data' function and checking the 'Import/Export Specs' option; creating dot-density maps in ArcView by aggregating point data into census tracts; using the instr(), Left(), and Mid() functions in Access to split name fields; and calculating weighted averages for school test scores. Another user tip addresses disk space errors in Access by changing the location of TEMP files in the Windows Environment settings.",
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    "extracted_at": "",
    "verified": true
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