Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) About CAT

The Coding Analysis Toolkit: Internal Coding Module

In CAT's internal coding module, the project manager is able to upload raw text datasets and have users with sub-accounts code those datasets directly through the CAT interface. As is the case with the original adjudication toolkit, this coding module features automated loading of discrete quotations and requires only keystrokes to apply the codes to the text.

You can watch an updated version of the CAT tutorial. We estimate coding tasks using CAT are completed 2-3 times as fast as identical coding tasks conducted using ATLAS. While this high-speed “mouse-less” coding module would poorly serve many traditional qualitative research approaches (where the features of ATLAS are very well-suited) it is ideally suited to annotation tasks routinely generated by computer scientists and a range of other health and social science researchers using large-scale content analysis as part of a qualitative or mixed methods approach.

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Download: sample raw data to code in CAT or prepare you own data
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Recent: QDAP Director announces CAT will be released as open source software under a GPL within one year.
Beta test: A new blog scraping tool (the Blog Analysis Toolkit) that creates archives of CAT-ready blog posts.

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"the smart way to code text"