Panelists Krista Harper, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Jennifer Lundquist, Associate Professor & Director of ISSR, Stuart Shulman, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Jackie Stein, doctoral student, Sociology, and Bridget Macdonald, master's student, Economics, will introduce qualitative computing as scholars familiar with different software packages describe their various strengths and capabilities and demonstrate their interfaces. The featured software packages are MaxQDA, WeftQDA, Atlas.TI, DiscoverText, CAT, NVivo, and Dedoose.