*Free PCAT Webinar - Tuesday October 5, 1:00 PM EST* To register for the Webinar: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/303064121 Learn the basics as well as the new features in the Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT). This overview will walk you through loading, searching, sorting and coding text data in PCAT. We will look at thousands of blog posts, emails to government, extracted PDFs, and the infamous, meta data-rich "Afghan War Diaries" from Wikileaks to see how search, tag cloud, filtering, clustering, and various forms of automation can make handling 10s or 100s of thousands of documents easier. Title: PCAT Training Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar. System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer The PCAT cloud computing service (http://pcat.qdap.net) is completely free at the basic level. A single user can get tools and storage space for a substantial research project without ever swiping a credit card. Thanks, ~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/