Let’s Keep the Virtuous Circle Going

One way to under­stand the con­cept of the “Data Life Cycle” is to real­ize that there is a vir­tu­ous cir­cle going between data and research find­ings: new data beget new find­ings and the new find­ings, new data col­lec­tion, all the while deep­en­ing our under­stand­ing and enrich­ing our knowledge.

This was the image that came to my mind when I read emails from the Mex­i­can Migra­tion Project (MMP) and the Latin Amer­i­can Migra­tion Project (LAMP) ask­ing users to post the pub­li­ca­tions based on their data. Have you done research using either project data? Then please help the projects con­tinue to col­lect and share impor­tant migra­tion data by adding your pub­li­ca­tion to the list. Visit the project pub­li­ca­tions page (MMP, LAMP) today, and let’s keep the good cir­cle going!

Note: The man­ager of the MMP project informed me that MMP has an infor­ma­tive Fre­quently Asked Ques­tions (FAQ) page avail­able for the data users. Cool!