{
  "id": 15958003,
  "title": "CSV Rescue: Let Local AI Do the Tedious CSV Cleanup — Without Giving It the Keys",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/csv-rescue-let-local-ai-do-the-tedious-csv-cleanup-without-giving-it",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-21T22:00:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/travis_calvert/csv-rescue-let-local-ai-do-the-tedious-csv-cleanup-without-giving-it-the-keys-4iig"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady . What I Built CSV files are everywhere. Unfortunately, so are the little inconsistencies that make them frustrating to work with: extra whitespace, currency symbols, inconsistent date formats, missing-value placeholders, and duplicate records. Cleaning those problems manually is tedious. Automating the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}