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The Coding Analysis Toolkit: Origin of the CAT System

The Coding Analysis Toolkit (or “CAT”) was developed in the summer of 2007. It was designed by QDAP Founder and Former Director Dr. Stuart Shulman and was created in collaboration with Mark Hoy, a Senior Programmer in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. It is maintained by UCSUR Technology Director James Lefcakis and is now receiving enhancements from a second programmer, Scott Simock. CAT is hosted on FISMA compliant servers and made available on the web at: http://cat.ucsur.pitt.edu/. To learn more about where CAT came from and where it is heading, please watch the narrated slide show available online. To become a CAT beta tester with a free user account, please contact us today.

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Download: sample raw data to code in CAT or prepare you own data
News: Watch a June 25, 2008 Screencast presentation on "New CAT Features"
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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