[Air-L] More BETA Testers Sought for PCAT

[Stuart Shulman]

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 at 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/