Coding the Blogosphere

Coding the Blogosphere: Introducing the Coding and Blog Analysis Toolkits

Dr. Stuart Shulman is the founder of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP), which is a fee-for-service coding lab at the University of Pittsburgh and UMass Amherst. QDAP and now QDAP-UMass staff and coders work on coding projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other U.S. funding agencies. Dr. Shulman (Oregon Ph.D. 1999) has been the Principal Investigator and Project Director on related National Science Foundation-funded research projects focusing on electronic rulemaking, human language technologies, manual annotation, digital citizenship, and service-learning efforts in the United States.

At e-Social Science, he will lead a hands-on, lap-top-based training introducing to the Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT), a web-based service designed to facilitate the measurement and reporting the reliability and validity of work completed by multiple coders. He will also introduce the Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT), which is designed to capture blog posts and archive them for analysis in CAT.

For more information, see:

QDAP
http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/

QDAP-UMass

http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/

Coding Analysis Toolkit

http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm

Blog Analysis Toolkit

https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php

Dr. Shulman's Home Page

http://people.umass.edu/stu/