CAT & DiscoverText have helped qualitative methodology by providing free and open source software options as well as web-based collaborative tools. They have also contributed innovations in measurement, free and premium social data collection methods, advanced search and filtering capabilities, clustering algorithms, and custom machine learning classifiers. Stuart Shulman founded Texifter to develop these types of tools to enhance qualitative analysis through features like word sense disambiguation and CoderRank for improved machine learning over time through iterative human coding.
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CAQDAS 2014 Pecha Kucha - Stuart Shulman
1. What have CAT & DiscoverText done
for qualitative methodology?
Stuart Shulman, Texifter
2014 Conference: Past, Present and Future
25 years of CAQDAS
8. Stuart Shulman – Texifter
Inter-Rater Reliability is Key
Understanding the landscape of human interpretation better
prepares us to face the challenge of machine classification
18. Stuart Shulman – Texifter
Naturally Occurring Clusters of Free Text
Can Be Discovered Automatically
19. Stuart Shulman – Texifter
Purist
A Spectrum of Methods Approaches
deep immersion
closeness to data
antipathy to numbers
credible interpretation
in-depth analysis
contextual
subjective
experimental
mixed method
adaptive hybrid
flexible approach
interdisciplinary quantitative
focus on error
measurement critical
validity and reliability
replication & objectivity
generalization
hypotheses
PositivistPluralist
20. • Free and open source software options
• Web-based (crowd source) collaborative tools
• Measurement innovation
• Free and premium social data collection
• Random sampling and keystroke coding
• Advanced search and filtering
• Deduplication and clustering algorithms
• Custom machine learning classifiers
• Word sense disambiguation
• CoderRank for enhanced machine learning
Stuart Shulman – Texifter
What have CAT & DiscoverText done
for qualitative methodology?
21. Stuart Shulman – Texifter
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Founder & CEO, Texifter, LLC
Research Associate Professor, UMass Amherst
Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP)
Editor Emeritus, Journal of Information Technology & Politics
Contact Information
stu@texifter.com
http://people.umass.edu/stu/
@stuartwshulman
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