Kimberly Silk presented on data management and discovery at the Martin Prosperity Institute. The MPI collects large social science datasets from various common and authoritative sources to support research. To better organize their growing collection, the MPI implemented an open data discovery platform called Dataverse to catalog and provide access to their datasets. Open data initiatives aim to make certain government data freely available to the public, but also present challenges around data preparation, support, and responsiveness. Big data refers to extremely large datasets beyond the capabilities of typical database tools, and data visualization is an important way to communicate insights from data.