Dr. Stuart W. Shulman

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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Director, QDAP-UMass - Associate Director, NCDG
Editor Emeritus, Journal of Information Technology & Politics
+1 413-545-5375 - Thompson Tower #428
stu@polsci.umass.edu

Stuart Shulman is a political science professor, software inventor, entrepreneur, and garlic growing enthusiast who coaches U11 boys club soccer for FC Massachusetts with a national D-license. He is the founder & CEO of Texifter, LLC, Director of QDAP-UMass, and Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Stu is the proud owner of a Bernese/Shepherd named "Colbert" who goes by ''Bert. You can follow his exploits @stuartwshulman or @texifter.

 
Whistler 2008

New for ATLAS.ti Users (11.30.11 Updates)
- ATLAS.ti 101: A Primer for Getting Started
- Merging Two or More HUs in ATLAS.ti
From the Texifter Blog (http://blog.texifter.com)
- Texifter and Columbia Launch New Gnip Data Feeds
- Random Sampling Tool
- Disqus API is Live!
- GNIP's Power Track

About
- Curriculum Vitae
- Brief Bio
- My Garlic Channel
Videos
- "Collecting Twitter Tweets - Free Tools"

- "Fear & Loathing on teh Social Campaign Trail"
- "21 Core DiscoverText Features"
Free Scholarly Publications
- Read about my theory of "perverse incentives" in Policy & Internet [free]

- "Deliberation in eRulemaking?" in Online Deliberation [free]
Training
- ATLAS.ti & CAT

- Coding the Blogosphere

Research
- eRulemaking
- QDAP & QDAP-UMass

- Threatening Communications
Publications
- Articles, chapters & papers
- Journal of Information Technology & Politics
     - Top 5 JITP downloads for 2009 [free]
     - Special Issue on Text Annotation
Software
- DiscoverText [14-day free trial]
- Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT) [free]
- Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT) [free and open source]
     -  2010  CAT goes open source

     -  2008  "Best Research Software" award from ITP

     - Download demo video (.avi) [62MB] (iPhone) [18 MB]
Replication Data

- View My Dataverse
- JITP's Dataverse & the Replication Policy of JITP
Kazakhstan
- YouTube Videologue & Slide Show 

Media Coverage
- "Algorithmically Yours" - Science
- "Constituents' E-Mail..." - Washington Post
- "Indian polls...tech-tonic shift" - UPI Asia.com
- "Learning from YouTube" - Campaigns & Elections
 

Recently in the news: "Chasing the Social Media Data Trail," "The Trouble with Measuring Tweets per Minute," & "Company Finds Useful Needles in Haystacks".