Love Data Week Resource Toolkit
A curated list of free, customizable promotional materials—like social media graphics, Zoom backgrounds, stickers, and activity ideas—to help institutions and individuals raise awareness and engagement for International Love Data Week. Ideal for event organizers looking to easily amplify data literacy initiatives, coordinate outreach (e.g., through copy‑and‑paste posts or certificates), and foster a fun, community‑wide celebration around data.
Spread the word about Love Data Week
All resources are free and can be used in newsletters, virtual meetings, printed flyers, and any Love Data Week-related initiatives. Download ready-to-use templates, copy-and-paste text, and activity ideas below. All Canva templates allow editing. If you have any corrections or additional translations, contact us at LoveDataWeek@umich.edu.
Templates
Save the Date
Right-click on the image to save and use for social media posts, emails, and other promotional materials.
Participation Certificate
Print or share the participation certificate with attendees or include this link in your materials.
Customize your virtual events with these backgrounds. The template (
Blog Post: “Ten Ways to Get Involved”
Use this copy-and-paste template to create a blog post with ideas for participation. Text can be accessed in the view-only document.
Activities and Ideas
Activity: Caption the Charts
Every day, share a pre-made chart and ask participants to create a funny caption (game instructions with examples) and daily charts (2025 charts, 2024 or 2023).
Activity: Crossword Puzzles
2 different puzzles with 8 questions. Hints and answer sheet included (canva file or pngs)
Activity: Adopt a Dataset
Adopting a dataset is kind of like adopting a pet, except less messy. Get started by reviewing the list of datasets on the ICPSR Love Data Week page and find something of interest to you. Fill out the Dataset Adoption Form, and then download, analyze online, or just review the summary information for your adopted data. Your role is to bring your dataset to life by learning about the information it contains and to share the information you’re learning through email, social media, virtual meetings, and more.
Download your dataset & get to know your data. Is it numeric? Is it a category? Is it messy? Learn more …
Printable Stickers
Print your own Love Data Week stickers. Thanks to Ashley Rockwell at Georgia State University Library for making them available.
LDW Kids: K-12 Materials
Material for K-6 teachers, librarians, families, and anyone else with instructions for each activity and idea prompts. Download and print and find out which dinosaurs get the most love in your classroom (and more). Examples courtesy of University of Alabama Birmingham Office of Scholarly Communications.