Love Data Week '25 Roundtable Discussion: Using Someone Else's Data: Benefits and Challenges

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Pete Lawson (moderator), Andreia Faria, Erik Westlund, and Benjamin Zaitchik will present a roundtable discussion (with audience Q&A) on "Using Someone Else's Data: Benefits and Challenges" as part of Love Data Week 2025.

Data reuse benefits scholarship by reducing the amount of time required to produce data and by facilitating novel ways to use data, perhaps not foreseen by the original data creator. Given these benefits, scholars may be motivated to reuse other's data, but how do you start using data collected by others for your own scholarship? During this session, you will have the opportunity to listen to Johns Hopkins researchers and staff talk about their experiences finding and evaluating data sources, the challenges and benefits when using secondary data, and thoughts on how Johns Hopkins can support the use of secondary data for scholarship. The session is designed so that attendees can ask their own questions as well.

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