More BETA Testers Sought for PCAT
We are seeking hundreds of new BETA testers to load test the Public Comment Analysis Toolkit: 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. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu@polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/
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Stuart Shulman