I wanted to make sure that a.o.i.r. conference attendees were aware of this late addition to the program. I will be doing a free CAT/BAT training on Saturday the 18th at the conference. If you are interested in capturing and coding blog data or coding text in general, I hope to see you there. The Coding Analysis Toolkit: A Hands-On Training Saturday October 18th - 9.00 am (Room: 3A52) Dr. Stuart Shulman is the founder of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP), which is a fee-for-service coding lab at the University of Pittsburgh. QDAP and now QDAP-UMass staff and coders work on coding projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other U.S. funding agencies. Dr. Shulman (Oregon Ph.D. 1999) has been the Principal Investigator and Project Director on related National Science Foundation-funded research projects focusing on electronic rulemaking, human language technologies, manual annotation, digital citizenship, and service-learning efforts in the United States. At AoIR, he will lead a hands-on, computer lab-based training introducing to the Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT), a web-based service designed to facilitate the measurement and reporting the reliability and validity of work completed by multiple coders. He will also introduce the Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT), which is designed to capture blog posts and archive them for analysis in CAT. For more information, see: QDAP: http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/ QDAP-UMass: http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/ Coding Analysis Toolkit: http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm Blog Analysis Toolkit: https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php Dr. Shulman's Home Page: http://people.umass.edu/stu/