1. What have CAT & DiscoverText done
for qualitative methodology?
Stuart Shulman, Texifter
2014 Conference: Past, Present and Future
25 years of CAQDAS
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Inter-Rater Reliability is Key
Understanding the landscape of human interpretation better
prepares us to face the challenge of machine classification
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Naturally Occurring Clusters of Free Text
Can Be Discovered Automatically
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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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