Melita Vaz holds a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor which empowered and diverted her career track from its origins in clinical service delivery and program management to research, monitoring and evaluation. Self-designated as a data elf with gifts for quantitative and qualitative research methods she is struggling with a Pandemic obsession to learn Python. Though based in the private sector in Mumbai city, she maintains professional ties with various universities through her training workshops for doctoral students related to research methodology and software. Her qualitative software journey has taken her for long visits to the isles of NVivo, Atlas-ti, and MaxQDA with a brief stop-over at QDA-Miner Lite. She has only taken a look at tourist brochures for Dedoose, and has plans for a trip to RQDA when travel conditions are favourable.