PCAT is for any text data.
Happy coding to all!
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Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
UMass Amherst, Political Science
On Jan 4, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Amy Fletcher
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> Hi Stuart,
>
> FYI, I can review the article that you recently sent me for JITP.
>
> And, per PCAT, I've registered as a user. Is this strictly for
> public comments, or is it also designed for qualitative analysis in
> general? (I'm currently using NVivo).
>
> Cheers,
> Amy
>
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> From: qual-software on behalf of Stuart Shulman
> Sent: Wed 30/12/2009 5:23 PM
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> Subject: More BETA Testers Sought for PCAT
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>
> We are seeking hundreds of new BETA testers to load test the Public
> Comment Analysis Toolkit:
>
> http://pcat.qdap.net <http://pcat.qdap.net/>
>
> 200+ users have joined the system since October 30th. Why would you
> try PCAT?
>
> http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=why_would_i_use_this_system
>
> It also works well for categorizing blog posts and other text
> datasets. Five sample PCAT-ready blog post datasets are available at:
>
> http://www.umass.edu/qdap/data.html
>
> I think you will find the search, peer, credential, memo and coding
> nexus in this software enables unique research opportunities. PCAT
> also carries internal measurement tools for inter-rater reliability
> and adjudication of coding decisions or pre-tests. It is a uniquely
> useful research tool if you have large digital text datasets. Best
> of all, PCAT is a free, Web-based platform that enables
> collaboration across space and time.
>
> --
> Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Political Science
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
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