Nobu Makishi
Wendy Good
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Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT).
Developed in the summer of 2007 by University
Center for Social and Urban Research at University
of Pittsburgh.
Updated 3/26/08.
“CAT was designed to use keystrokes and
automation to clarify and speed-up the coding,
validation, or consensus adjudication process.”
Free access to the CAT program.
Opened under a General Public License in 2009.
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Go to the website: http://cat.ucs.pitt.edu/
CREATE USER NAME AND
PASSWORD
PROVIDE REQUIRED
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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1. Upload a xml file
2. Upload a text file (.txt)
3. Upload a zip file
Text file
Song
space
Zip File
Song.txt
Song.txt
Song
space
Song
Song.txt
Song.txt
Party in the U.S.A by Miley Cyrus
2. Down by Jay Sean featuring Lil Wayne
3. Paparazzi by Lady Gaga
4. Whatcha Say by Jason derulo
5. Sweet Dreams by Beyonce
6. Use somebody by Kings of leon
7. You belong with me by Taylor swift
8. Run this Town by Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West
9. Love Drunk by Boys like Girls
10. Already Gone by Kelly Clarkson
Source from Billboard.com on 11/2/09
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When you leave it unchecked, at the end it will bring
up all the choices you made, so you can verify that you
did everything correctly
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If you check this box, you can re-define codes after
they have been uploaded into the database.
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Default is one code per codeable unit (song)
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Catpac, Galileo, and Oresme are made by the
Galileo Company.
ThoughtView is made by Joseph D. and Joseph K
Woelfel.
Catpac can analyze the texts in Chinese, French,
Hindi, English, or Spanish.
“CATPAC is an intelligent program that can read any
text and summarize its main ideas. It needs no
precoding and makes no linguistic assumptions. It
has a distinguished record of research with
publications in many of the world's foremost
journals worldwide.”
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Our data set:
DATA use from Cleveland State University president
inauguration speech on October 16, 2009.
http://www.csuohio.edu/offices/president/messag
e/.