Data Literacy (HC)

(NOTE: See the Finding Data section of this guide for ways to find actual datasets and statistics.)

Making data open or otherwise sharing it, as allowable, provides a number of benefits to the academic community:

• Data can be repurposed by other scholars for similar or extensible studies
• Results from a given study can be reproduced/validated when original data are made available
• Robustness checks can be undertaken to see how strongly a result holds given treatments on the same data

In addition to these tangible uses for shared data, making one's data available for public use signals academic integrity. Some such open data can be found in the Data Storage section of this guide.

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