http://pcat-help.qdap.net/ 2010-08-06T06:32:08-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/ http://pcat-help.qdap.net/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-12-23T13:03:42-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=access_account_information&rev=1261591422&do=diff RWjpo7 <a href=“<http://njdqcddlmfhw.com/>”>njdqcddlmfhw</a>, [url=<http://svmpajzeqgev.com/>]svmpajzeqgev[/url], [link=<http://mucuhwdzqqrs.com/>]mucuhwdzqqrs[/link], <http://ztnjgywjfrcq.com/> text/html 2010-07-04T08:13:05-04:00 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 2010-03-22T18:09:19-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=assign_users_a_range_of_items&rev=1269295759&do=diff Assign Users a Range of Items Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Upload | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Assign Users to a Range of Items There are currently three major coding styles in PCAT. Use the “Assign Users to a Range of Items” style of coding when you want to split coding work across a group of annotators. In this style, you can still produce an overlap where two or more coders are coding … text/html 2010-07-04T08:10:39-04:00 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… text/html 2010-07-04T08:09:50-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=cluster&rev=1278245390&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 can cluster similar comments and highlight unique text in your dataset Once you have identified the exact duplicate comments, the next step is to cluster similar comments and to automatically highlight the unique text, deletions and edits found in the clustered, modified … text/html 2010-07-04T08:14:34-04:00 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 2010-03-22T18:01:33-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=code_next_uncoded_item&rev=1269295293&do=diff Code Next Uncoded Item Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Upload | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Next Uncoded Item Coding There are currently three major coding approaches available in PCAT. Use the “Code Next Uncoded Item” style of coding when you want to distribute a dataset across a group of two or more peers and make items to code available on a first-come first-served basis. 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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 2010-07-04T08:04:55-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=create_a_new_account&rev=1278245095&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 How to create a new account To create a new PCAT account, please click on the “register for new account” button at: <http://pcat.qdap.net/> text/html 2010-07-04T08:05:56-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=create_a_new_project&rev=1278245156&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 It is easy to create a new project Projects are the highest level organizing units in PCAT. You can have as many projects as you like. Within a project, your can have multiple archives (the raw data) buckets (clustered data) and datasets (code-able data). text/html 2010-07-04T08:12:10-04:00 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 2010-07-04T08:12:46-04:00 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 2010-07-04T08:05:09-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=credentials&rev=1278245109&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 Establish credentials and control who can view them PCAT allows users to establish credentials that make it easier to find and utilize peers via the Peer Directory. To set your credentials, select Update Account Information on the Account drop-down list. The first tab … text/html 2010-07-04T08:08:47-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=de-duplicate&rev=1278245327&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 can de-duplicate your public comment archive PCAT contains a “one-click” methods for removing duplicate public comments from an archive. Once you have uploaded an archive with suspected duplicates, click on the arrow at the end of the archive to expose the “Archive Menu” … text/html 2010-06-10T14:01:53-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=does_pcat_identify_duplicates&rev=1276192913&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 Duplicate detection and clustering It sure does. 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Note: Reports are available even if a dataset has not been locked. text/html 2010-07-04T08:03:50-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=home_page&rev=1278245030&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 Welcome to the Public Comment Analysis Toolkit Help Wiki The Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT) is a cloud computing platform. It enables efficient and scalable Web-based collaborative text analysis. PCAT uses automation, clustering, search, peer networks, credentials, an … text/html 2010-06-08T07:53:34-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=launch_press_release&rev=1275998014&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 Launch Press Release October 30, 2009 Contact: Dr. Stuart Shulman, stu@polsci.umass.edu, 413-545-5375 (w) text/html 2010-07-04T08:13:46-04:00 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 2010-05-16T22:54:45-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=open_coding&rev=1274064885&do=diff Open Coding (a.k.a. User-Defined Coding) Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Open Coding Open coding is a technique related to “grounded theory” in qualitative research. Using open coding, coders are granted “free reign” in terms of identifying any and all emergent themes deemed to be significant. This allows coders to create their own codes (referre… text/html 2010-05-16T11:00:30-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=pre-defined_coding&rev=1274022030&do=diff Pre-Defined Coding Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Projects | Upload | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Pre-defined Coding Pre-defined coding allows you to assign units of text to categories using keystrokes. text/html 2010-07-04T08:10:57-04:00 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 2010-03-22T18:06:31-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=standard_coding&rev=1269295591&do=diff Standard Coding Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Upload | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact Standard Coding Style There are currently three major coding approaches in PCAT. Use the “Standard Coding” option when you are creating datasets where you want more than one person to code the same data. With this coding style, every assigned peer will see the same data and you can use the “Analysis” and “vail… text/html 2010-03-25T09:50:27-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=start&rev=1269525027&do=diff text/html 2010-03-25T10:12:58-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=testpagehere&rev=1269526378&do=diff Some new testing page New Picture: text/html 2010-07-04T08:14:17-04:00 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 2009-12-27T15:25:19-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=upload_cat-style_datasets&rev=1261945519&do=diff Upload CAT-Style Datasets Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Upload | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact PCAT is designed to handle datasets prepared to for the Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT) On the Dashboard, click “Upload CAT-Style Archive”. text/html 2010-07-17T22:14:54-04:00 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 2010-02-24T12:44:51-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=upload_wordpress_2.0_rss_feed&rev=1267033491&do=diff Upload WordPress 2.0 RSS Feed Home | Accounts | Credentials | Peers | Upload | View | Browse | Search | Buckets | Datasets | Assign | Toolbox | Code | Bookmarks | Validate | Report | FAQ | Contact PCAT is designed to handle XML datasets, such as Wordpress RSS feeds On the Dashboard, click “Upload XML File”. text/html 2010-07-04T08:15:29-04:00 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 2010-07-04T08:10:20-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=view_all_archives&rev=1278245420&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 View all the archives you own or have permission to work with From the Project Management page, click “Archives” or the plus icon next to it for the “Expanded Archive View” of all the archives in that project. If you expand a project's archive list by clicking the plus… text/html 2010-06-10T13:25:03-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=what_is_qdap&rev=1276190703&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 QDAP? From biomedical, public health, and educational research, to studies in the behavioral, computational, and social sciences, effective qualitative data analysis plays a critical role. For this reason, we have created the Qualitative Data Analysis Program labs at t… text/html 2010-06-04T09:25:02-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=where_do_i_get_fdms_bulk_downloads&rev=1275657902&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 Where do I get FDMS bulk downloads? Please contact the FDMS Administrator for the agency that owns the public comment data. Standard PCAT-ready bulk downloads are available upon request. Sample FDMS archives are available on PCAT once you are logged in. text/html 2010-06-04T09:23:37-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=why_would_i_use_this_system&rev=1275657817&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 Why would I use this system? The Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT) is Web-based, university-hosted and supported software engineered for the specific task of reviewing public comments submitted via the Federal Docket Management System or email to federal agencies. PCAT is… text/html 2010-07-04T08:14:51-04:00 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 2009-10-26T00:14:27-04:00 http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=working_with_memos&rev=1256530467&do=diff Working with Memos PCAT Help Wiki Home Memos play a critical role organizing the passages of text that are critical to the analytic process. ---------- © 2009 - Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP), in the University Center for Social and Urban Research, at the University of Pittsburgh, and