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

Speakers: Pete Lawson (Moderator), Dr. Andreia Faria, Erik Westlund, and Benjamin Zaitchik

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 Hopkins can support the use of secondary data for scholarship. The session is designed so that attendees can ask their own questions as well.

Registration link: https://bit.ly/JH_lovedataweek

** This session is part of Love Data Week 2025. To attend this session, first register here: https://bit.ly/JH_lovedataweek and then follow the instruction under "Registration and Creating an Itinerary" in the description to add this session to your itinerary. **