Better Science through Better Data 2017 (#scidata17)

Scientific Data and Springer Nature partnered with Wellcome Trust to stage the event, which covered the benefits, unintended consequences and practicalities of managing and publishing research data.This includes a focus on the needs of early career researchers, such as data skills, career progression, and good practice for sharing data alongside peer-reviewed publications. The event included showing examples of innovative approaches to data sharing and reuse, and demos of tools and resources available to researchers to help them, and their research community, make the best use of their research data.The event involved a number of short “lightning” talks and demos from researchers and students presenting case studies of research data sharing, data reuse and associated tools in action.