http://pcat-help.qdap.net/ 2010-07-17T23:40:10-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/ http://pcat-help.qdap.net/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-07-17T22:14:54-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=upload_fdms_public_comment_data&rev=1279419294&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact PCAT ingests bulk downloads from the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) A core function of PCAT is to ingest archives (ex., .zip files) that contain bulk downloads from the US Federal Docket Management System (FDMS). PCAT also handles collections of e-mails bulk exported … text/html 2010-07-17T22:10:35-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=form_a_peer_network&rev=1279419035&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Use PCAT to form a peer network A peer network allows you to share your analytic work with others. Peer connections are similar to friends on social networking sites like Facebook. When you establish peers, you will have PCAT-based links to trusted collaborators with whom you … text/html 2010-07-04T08:19:42-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=contact_qdap&rev=1278245982&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Contact QDAP 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 Director, QDAP-UMass <http://www… text/html 2010-07-04T08:16:04-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=faq&rev=1278245764&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Here are some things you may need to know text/html 2010-07-04T08:15:44-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=generate_summary_reports&rev=1278245744&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Generate summary reports to advance the analytic process Once you have completed coding a dataset (or at any point during the process), you can review, print or save the results. Note: Reports are available even if a dataset has not been locked. text/html 2010-07-04T08:15:29-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=validate_the_work_of_coders&rev=1278245729&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact PCAT project managers can review and validate the work of coders During training sessions, you may want to review and validate the work of coders to make sure they understand the requirements of the classification task. The original CAT Toolkit was built primarily for this pu… text/html 2010-07-04T08:14:51-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=work_with_memos&rev=1278245691&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Bookmarks and memos are collaborative tools for "trigger" text Bookmarks play a critical role in organizing passages of text. You can use this feature to note what passage in the text triggered you to assign a code. text/html 2010-07-04T08:14:34-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=code_data&rev=1278245674&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Coding text is the central purpose of PCAT Coding text data involves putting passages of text into one or more conceptual categories for later analysis. There are two primary methods by which users can code datasets in PCAT: text/html 2010-07-04T08:14:17-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=toolbox_functions&rev=1278245657&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact There are some useful features in the raw dataset toolbox To access the “Toolbox” for a particular dataset, expand the “Datasets” menu and click on the dataset you want to access. [ ] Note: The features you see in the Raw Dataset Toolbox vary depending on how the data… text/html 2010-07-04T08:13:46-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=notifications&rev=1278245626&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Notifications PCAT Creates Notifications about Important Events PCAT delivers notifications to your dashboard when important events take place. For example, if you share an archive, project or dataset with a peer, that peer receives a notification the next time they log-in to… text/html 2010-07-04T08:13:05-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=assign_coders&rev=1278245585&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Once you have established a peer network, you are ready to assign coders Once you have created a dataset inside a project, you can assign coders to it. Click the plus icon next to “Datasets” to expand the list of available datasets. Then, select the dataset you want to assign… text/html 2010-07-04T08:12:46-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=create_datasets&rev=1278245566&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Creating "code-able" datasets The central purpose of PCAT is to create datasets for easy coding. Datasets are different than archives. A dataset is all or part of an archive that has been assembled for coding. You can create numerous datasets that are sub-parts of an overall… text/html 2010-07-04T08:12:10-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=create_buckets&rev=1278245530&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact What is a Bucket? Conceptual “Buckets” are broad categories of ideas that contain multiple thematically similar codes. Buckets are an intermediate step before the creation of a dataset to be coded. text/html 2010-07-04T08:10:57-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=search_for_key_concepts&rev=1278245457&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact When looking at an archive or sub-archive, you have the option to enter a search query When you are browsing an archive, use the search box the enter your query term(s). The documents containing that search term are returned in the browsing window below and the search term is… text/html 2010-07-04T08:10:39-04:00 Stuart Shulman http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=browse_an_archive&rev=1278245439&do=diff Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | De-duplicate | Cluster | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Notifications | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact PCAT users can browse the items in an archive one at a time. On the Dataset drop down menu, click on “View Agency Archives”. Then, click on the name of the archive you wish to browse. A browsing list with snippet previews will appear in the bottom right frame of the screen. Yo…