diff --git a/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/intro.rst b/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/intro.rst
index e82f44cae27..f5a970d772c 100755
--- a/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/intro.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/intro.rst
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ As a developer, you also may be interested in these projects related to Datavers
 - External Tools - add additional features to Dataverse: See the :doc:`/installation/external-tools` section of the Installation Guide.
 - Dataverse API client libraries - use Dataverse APIs from various languages: :doc:`/api/client-libraries`
 - DVUploader - a stand-alone command-line Java application that uses the Dataverse API to support upload of files from local disk to a Dataset: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-uploader 
+- dataverse-sample-data - populate your Dataverse installation with sample data: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-sample-data
 - dataverse-metrics - aggregate and visualize metrics for installations of Dataverse around the world: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-metrics
 - Configuration management scripts - Ansible, Puppet, etc.: See "Advanced Installation" in the :doc:`/installation/prep` section of the Installation Guide.
 - :doc:`/developers/unf/index` (Java) -  a Universal Numerical Fingerprint: https://github.com/IQSS/UNF
diff --git a/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/tips.rst b/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/tips.rst
index 090a5192e3c..03a98f64269 100755
--- a/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/tips.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/tips.rst
@@ -153,9 +153,9 @@ On a Mac, you won't have git installed unless you have "Command Line Developer T
 Sample Data
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-You may want to populate your installation of Dataverse with sample data. You have a couple options:
+You may want to populate your **non-production** installation(s) of Dataverse with sample data. You have a couple options:
 
-- Code in https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-sample-data (recommended).
+- Code in https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-sample-data (recommended). This set of sample data includes several common data types, data subsetted from production datasets in dataverse.harvard.edu, datasets with file hierarchy, and more.
 - Scripts called from ``scripts/deploy/phoenix.dataverse.org/post``.
 
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