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Coding Analysis Toolkit
A Service of the University of Pittsburgh's Qualitative Data Analysis Program
 
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About QDAP

Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP)

Provide us with the raw data and your analytical vision. We will work with your research team to craft a tailored methodology to code the text for key concepts. This allows you to focus on the larger analytical questions while we quickly and reliably extract the data you tell us you need to reach valid inferences.

Services

We offer professional support for key project management tasks such as:

  • Focus groups and interviews
  • Audio transcription
  • Data preparation, cleaning, and management
  • Codebook development and testing
  • Online coding adjudication
  • Rater reliability and validity reporting
  • Results analysis and expression

QDAP will provide you with a team of professionally trained coders and a graduate student or UCSUR staff project manager. We also work collaboratively with the qualitative research consultants at ResearchTalk Inc., preparing researchers and their students to be more fluent in the project life cycle using ATLAS.ti. ATLAS.ti is commercial software that supports project management, enables multiple coders to collaborate on a single project, and generates output that facilitates analysis.

We offer a robust mix of existing and experimental tools, careful iterative techniques, and energetic, participatory training sessions. Our goal is to work with researchers who are interested in generating studies with valid observations and accurately reported inter-rater agreement rates. QDAP will lend objectivity to your qualitative project. We will work closely with you to determine which coding strategy can identify all the information you need to reach solid evidence-based inferences.

Stuart W. Shulman is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Sara Fine Institute in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the founder and Director of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) at Pitt’s University Center for Social and Urban Research, which is a fee-for-service coding lab working on projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and other funding agencies. In 2007, became a Core Investigator in Pitt’s Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research Network Development Core. He has been Principal Investigator and Project Director on several related NSF-funded research projects focusing on electronic rulemaking, human language technologies, coding across the disciplines, digital citizenship, and service-learning efforts in the United States. Dr. Shulman is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics.


 
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