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  "id": "2004-march-readmetxt",
  "slug": "2004-march-readmetxt",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2004-march-readmetxt.html",
  "year": 2004,
  "month": "March",
  "monthNum": 3,
  "headline": "readme.txt",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "NICAR",
  "summary": "CAR Tools highlights software useful for computer-assisted reporting, featuring recent reviews of mapping, analytics, and text parsing tools for journalists.",
  "keywords": [
    "software",
    "journalism",
    "tools"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Journalism & Newsroom",
    "Technology",
    "Investigative Methods"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "ClusterSeer",
    "SAS",
    "ParseRat",
    "OS X",
    "ArcView"
  ],
  "full_text": "CAR Tools focuses on software that's useful to journalists doing computer-assisted reporting. Recent issues of Uplink have taken a look at:\n\nClusterSeer analytic mapping tool. (January/February 2004)\nSAS System Viewer (November/December 2003)\nParseRat text parser (September/October 2003)\nos X operating system (May/June 2003)\nRematch extension for ArcView 3.x (March/April 2003)\n\nIf you have a favorite CAR tool that Uplink readers should know about, drop us a line at uplink@nicar.org.",
  "provenance": {
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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