International Love Data Week
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Love Data Week 2025
February 10-14, 2025
#LoveData25
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Save the Date
The 2025 theme is “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?” Take a minute to think about who owns data compared to who uses data. Different groups - like researchers, the government, companies, or organizations - may collect data. They could own it, share it, publish it online, or combine it. This year's Love Data Week wants us to ask 'Whose Data is it Anyway?' This helps us remember to think about where the data came from before using it. Use this theme to have fun with your audience using data games or game shows. You could also use it to help people learn more about data literacy. Or you could talk about being responsible when dealing with important issues involving data. We've created a ready-to-use social media post. Simply download (or right-click) the square image and use it along with the text below to share this year's event with your community on any social media platform.
Save the date! Love Data Week is February 10-14, 2025. Sign up for email updates at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRLoveDataWeekIntl. #LoveData25
Events and activities
View all 2025 Love Data Week events and activities happening locally and virtually around the world.
Ideas for Activities
- Data citation
- Fact-checking and accounting for misuse of data
- Finding data sources
- Transparency of AI
- Data governance and management
- Data sovereignty, such as Indigenous data
- Pros/cons of sharing data
- Copyright and other intellectual property associated with data
Looking for a listing of ICPSR-specific Love Data Week events or the popular "Adopt-a-Dataset" activity? Visit the Love Data Week with ICPSR page.
Submit an event listing
Are you hosting an event or activity for Love Data Week 2025? Submit your information to be included in the official Love Data Week events and activities list. Questions? Contact LoveDataWeek@umich.edu.
Sign Up for Love Data Week Updates
Do you love data as much as we do? You can stay up-to-date easily. Sign up for Love Data Week updates via email using the button below. Follow Love Data Week on Twitter and Instagram all year long! Tag us in your posts (@LoveDataWeek) and continue the #LoveData25 conversation anytime.
Resources
Our shareable toolkit offers activity ideas, ready-to-use templates, copy-and-paste text, and more. Download social media images, Zoom backgrounds, activity ideas, and more to promote your Love Data Week events and activities. All resources are free and can be used in newsletters, virtual meetings, printed flyers, and any Love Data Week-related initiatives.
Open Program Brainstorming Sessions
Do you want to be a part of the brainstorming for this year's happenings? All of our open meeting dates and times are listed below (in EST time). Click on the link(s) to register for one or more of the sessions.
- February 17, 2-3pm (Monday) (debrief session)
- February 18, 9:30-10:30am (Tuesday) (debrief session)
History of Love Data Week
Love Data Week was established in 2016 as Love Your Data week. Originally created in the USA and coordinated by Heather Coates, it quickly grew to an international event in which a wide range of institutions, organizations, scholars, students, and other data lovers could celebrate their data. Read more ...
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Love Data Week? Love Data Week is an international celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine's day. Universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations and individuals are encouraged to host and participate in data-related events and activities.
- Who can participate in Love Data Week? Love Data Week is an international, public activity. Each year individual organizations host their own events and activities. The Love Data Week committee maintains a list of all events and activities.
- Is Love Data Week a conference? Love Data Week is not a conference. It is a variety of events and activities hosted online, or in person locally around the world. Participants are encouraged to explore the variety of offerings found in the full listing of events and activities and to register for each individually.
- How can I get involved? Submit your events and activities through the form found on this page. At the end of Love Data Week, a call for new committee members is sent via email. Please sign up for Love Data Week updates via email.
Past Information (for reference only)
- 2024 Information
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2024 Key details
The 2024 theme is "My Kind of Data." Data is personal. It can be created about anything, it can mean anything depending on the person, and it can be used for countless purposes depending on the individual need. If you haven't participated before, Love Data Week is the international celebration of data. Use this year’s Love Data Week to highlight the various representations of “my data,” such as showcasing the work that goes into making data, recognizing data equity and inclusion factors for the people participating in or affected by data, and documenting the data standards from (inter)disciplinary communities.
Join International Love Data Week February 12-16, 2024, to learn about data equity and inclusion, disciplinary communities, and creating a kinder world through data.
Share with your community!
We've created a ready-to-use social media post. Simply download (or right-click) the square image and use it along with the text below to share this year's event with your community on any social media platform.
Save the date! Love Data Week is February 12-16, 2024. Sign up for email updates at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRLoveDataWeekIntl. #LoveData24
Events and activities
View all Love Data Week events and activities happening locally and virtually around the world.
Looking for a listing of ICPSR-specific Love Data Week events or the popular "Adopt-a-Dataset" activity? Visit the Love Data Week with ICPSR page.
Ideas for Activities
- Processes within the lifecycle of data
- What data is
- Where do you find data
- What makes data trustworthy
- Data quality for collection and analysis
- How different audiences might have different data needs/experiences
- Using data in the real world (outside academia)
- Data sovereignty and IP
- FAIR and CARE principles
- Data privacy, such as anonymization/identification
- Commodification of personal data
- Periodic events such as Tidy TuesdaysSubmit an event listing
Are you hosting an event or activity for Love Data Week 2024? Submit your information to be included in the official Love Data Week events and activities list. Questions? Contact LoveDataWeek@umich.edu .
View All Events Submit an Event
Sign Up for Love Data Week Updates
Do you love data as much as we do? You can stay up-to-date easily. Sign up for Love Data Week updates via email using the button below. Follow Love Data Week on Twitter and Instagram all year long! Tag us in your posts (@LoveDataWeek) and continue the #LoveData24 conversation anytime.
Resources
Our shareable toolkit offers activity ideas, ready-to-use templates, copy-and-paste text, and more. Download social media images, Zoom backgrounds, activity ideas, and more to promote your Love Data Week events and activities. All resources are free and can be used in newsletters, virtual meetings, printed flyers, and any Love Data Week-related initiatives.
Open Program Brainstorming Sessions
Do you want to be a part of brainstorming for this year's happenings or the debrief afterward? All of our open meeting dates and times are listed below. Register now for one or all of the sessions.
- February 5: 11 am - 12 pm ET (brainstorming session)
- Tuesday, February 20: 1 - 2 pm ET (debrief session)
- Wednesday, February 21: 10 - 11 am ET (debrief session)
- Wednesday, May 15 - 10:00 am ET (2025 brainstorming session)
- 2023 Information
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2023 Key details
Love Data Week takes place February 13 - 17, 2023. The hastag is #LoveData23 (across all platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Mastadon, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn etc).
Theme
The theme this year is Data: Agent of Change. Love Data Week is about inspiring your community to use data to bring about changes that matter. Policy change, environmental change, social change... we can move mountains with the right data guiding our decisions. This year, we are focused on helping new and seasoned data users find data training and other resources that can help move the needle on the issues they care about.
Events and Activities
Find events and activities happening locally and virtually around the world: Love Data Week 2023 events and activities
Submit an event or activity
Are you hosting an event or activity for Love Data Week 2023? Submit your information to be included in the official Love Data Week events and activities list (coming soon).
Spread the word
Add this image and text to your social media, events calendars, newsletters and more!
Happy Love Data Week! Find events and activities, sign up for email announcements and more: https://myumi.ch/ICPSRlovedata23 #LoveData23
Additional shareable resources, such as Zoom backgrounds and print-your-own stickers, are available in the Love Data Week 2023 Toolkit.
Are you a Love Data Week organizer?
If you're organizing Love Data Week events and activities at your home institution, please make sure to sign up for the Love Data Week email list to be notified of important dates for 2023.
Are you organizing events and activities? Join us for an Open Debrief Session:
Questions?
Send an email to LoveDataWeek@umich.edu.
International Committee Members
Kelsey Badger, Ohio State University
Patti Condon, University of New Hampshire
Nicole Daly, Villanova University
Jacquelyn Deppe, Seton Hall
César García, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Lynette Hoelter, ICPSR
Jane Lee, IPUMS Center for Data Integration, University of Minnesota
Katie Pierce-Farrier, University of North Texas Health Science Center
Nathaniel Porter, Virginia Tech
Mary Rausch, West Texas A&M University
Ashley Rockwell, Georgia State University
Annalee Shelton, ICPSR
Jenna Tyson, ICPSR - 2022 Information
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2022 Key details
Love Data Week takes place February 13-17, 2023. The hastag is #LoveData22 (across all platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Mastadon, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn etc).
Theme
The theme this year is Data is for everyone. Data is for everyone! Wait ... data are for everyone? Either way, Love Data Week 2022 is about how different folks use data. If you haven't participated before, Love Data Week is the international celebration of data. This year we're focused on the people side of data. What does data look like in different disciplines? How about biases in data... who is "in" the data and who is invisible? We're looking forward to hearing about your events and activities answering these and other important questions.
Events and Activities
Find all the Love Data Week events and activities here: Love Data Week 2022 events and activities
Spread the word
Forward this email, or copy/paste this text and image to social media:
Join us for Love Data Week 2022! “Data is for everyone” starts February 14. Learn more at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRldw2022events. #LoveData22
Additional shareable resources, such as Zoom backgrounds and print-your-own stickers, are available in the Love Data Week 2022 Toolkit.
Are you team "data is" or team "data are"? Sound off in this survey!
Ideas for events
Not sure what to do this year? Use these topic ideas to create your own event or activity:
- Lifecycle of data (research data etc.)
- Case studies of data use
- Walkthroughs of data-related tools and services
- Research data management
- How different audiences might have different data needs/experiences
- How to reach people in disciplines that don’t typically use data
- Asynchronous opportunities to learn using data
- How to outreach to students, researchers, clients and others about using data-related services
- Best Practices
- Data in unexpected places
- Data literacy
- “Data are for lovers”
- “Data for the people”
- Inclusivity in data
Questions?
Send an email to LoveDataWeek@umich.edu.
International Committee Members
Patti Condon, University of New Hampshire
Kelsey Cheshire, Virginia Commonwealth University
Lynette Hoelter, ICPSR
Dory Knight-Ingram, ICPSR
Mary Rausch, West Texas A&M University
Violeta J. Rodriguez, University of Georgia, University of Miami
Annalee Shelton, ICPSR - 2021 Information
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Thank you for joining us at Love Data Week 2021! Interested in getting involved for 2022? Fill out the Love Data Week 2022 interest form.
Please find information for Love Data Week 2021 preserved below for reference:
We are excited to announce that ICPSR is the new official home of International Love Data Week! Thank you to Heather Coates for her incredible leadership over the past several years and to all of the committee members and volunteers who helped turn this into an international event.
Love Data Week 2021 (Feb. 8-12) is based loosely on the theme “Data: Delivering a Better Future.” The hashtag is #LoveData21.
Please find below a listing of Love Data Week 2021 events, including those hosted by ICPSR and other institutions. Visit the links below to find more information for each of the institutions listed. Please register for each event you are interested in using the individual links below.
Love Data Week 2021 events:
Public events listed by date (visit the links below to register):
Weeklong events and activities
- Maynooth University: Poster Presentation: Visualizing Importance and Interaction effects using the R-package vivid
- New York University #NYULoveDatathon21
Monday, February 8;
- All day: Florida State University Data Librarian Twitter takeover! Follow @fsulibraries
- 7am EST: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Coffee Lecture "CC licenses – a short introduction" (in English and German)
- 9am EST: New York University: Ontology Literacy : Insights from the Wikiverse
- 9am EST: Maynooth University Library: Irish Sea Level Change in the Atlantic Context
- 10am EST: LabArchives: Creating Templates to Standardize the Collection and Management of Data (30 minutes)
- 10am EST: McGill University: What's the deal with data?
- 11am EST: Seton Hall University: R: ggplot
- 11am EST: New York University: Introduction to Unix / Linux and the Shell
- 11:30am EST: McGill University: Yes, That's Data! Demystifying Data in the Humanities
- 12pm EST: New York University: Introduction to ArcGIS (ArcMap)
- 12pm EST: University of Maryland Baltimore: Introduction to the Center for Data and Bioinformation Services (and launch party!)
- 1pm EST: Network of the National Library of Medicine: Reflections on Open Access and Ethics in Data Literacy Training
- 2pm EST: McGill University: Film discussion: Conectifai!” & “This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet
- 3pm EST: LabArchives: Best Practices and Tips for Establishing Your Notebook’s Structure (30 minutes)
- 4pm EST: Michigan Institute for Data Science Seminar Series and ICPSR Co-present: Misty Heggeness, Research Economist, US Census Bureau
- 4pm EST: New York University: Introduction to QGIS
- 8pm EST: New York University: Data Visualization with Tableau
Tuesday, February 9:
- 2am EST (11am GMT+1): Open Access: Research data & Open Access - this is how you publish your data (this event is in German)
- 9am EST: Maynooth University Library: Estimating Modern Contraceptive Use - Moving from Models to People
- 10am EST: LabArchives: Best Practices and Tips for Establishing Your Notebook’s Structure (30 minutes)
- 10am EST: McGill University: Working with Data in Excel
- 10:30am EST: Maynooth University Library: Estimating Abundance in Animal Communities
- 12pm EST: Harvard University: Harvard Dataverse: Finding, Reusing, and Citing Data
- 12pm EST: University of Maryland Baltimore: Best Practices for Research Data Management
- 1pm EST: COVID-19 Data Resources and Research: Measures of its Impact in the United States
- 1pm EST: McGill University: Book Club: Data Feminism
- 1pm EST: Network of the National Library of Medicine: How Open Data Can Support a Pandemic Response
- 1pm EST (10am PST): University of California at Davis: Geocoding Personally Identifiable Data
- 2pm EST: Data Foundation: Prioritizing Scientific Integrity & Evidence-Based Policymaking: A Look at the White House Memo
- 2pm EST: Seton Hall University: Using PowerBI to Identify Diversity in Your Workplace
- 2pm EST: New York University: Advanced Qualtrics Features & Uses
- 3pm EST: Florida State University: Introduction to HPC/Slurm and Open OnDemand
- 3pm EST: New York University: Data Cleaning for GIS
- 3pm EST: Seton Hall University: Using Excel to Build an Optimal Investment Portfolio
- 4pm EST: New York University: Data Cleaning & Management Using Python
Wednesday, February 10:
- 7am EST: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Coffee Lecture "Finding research data – in 15 minutes" (in German)
- 9am EST: New York University: Roundtable: Wikimedians at NYU: Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Community of Practice
- 9:30am EST: Maynooth University Library: Open Science & Research Data Management: An Overview
- 10am EST: McGill University: Finding Canadian Data
- 11am EST: Seton Hall University: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Data Sources in ICPSR
- 12pm EST: Harvard University: DMPTool: One-Stop-Shop for Data Management Plans
- 12pm EST: New York University: Introduction to REDCap
- 12pm EST: University of Maryland Baltimore: Writing Data Management Plans with DMPTool
- 1pm EST: ICPSR Webinar: Digital Methods for Dance History: Finding Arts and Culture Data in Unexpected Places
- 1pm EST: Network of the National Library of Medicine: Advocating for Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications
- 1pm EST: New York University: Accessing U.S. Census Data
- 2pm EST: McGill University: Introduction to Research Data Management
- 2pm EST: Seton Hall University: Algorithmic Bias and Data Ethics
- 2pm EST: University of Delaware: Data for the Humanities Scholar
- 3pm EST: LabArchvies: Creating Templates to Standardize the Collection and Management of Data (30 minutes)
- 3pm EST: New York University: Using Slurm on Greene cluster
- 3pm EST: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Tableau I
- 4pm EST: New York University: Introduction to MaxQDA
- 7pm EST: McGill University: Yeshimabeit Milner on Abolish Big Data and Data 4 Black Lives
Thursday, February 11:
- 1am EST (8am UTC): Springer Nature: Sharing research data: what publishers want authors to know
- 7am EST (2pm UTC): Springer Nature: Sharing research data: what publishers want authors to know
- 7am EST: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Data Escape Room (familiarity with German language suggested)
- 9am EST: Maynooth University Library: What does open research mean? An introductory guide
- 10am EST: McGill University: Finding Geospatial Data
- 10am EST: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: ArcGIS Pro for Beginners
- 11am EST: Seton Hall University: Tableau Dashboards
- 12pm EST: Harvard University: Data Availability Statements: Ensure Research Reproducibility
- 12pm EST: McGill University: #CovidArt: Bridging the Gap Between Science, Art, and the Public
- 12pm EST: New York University: Doing Qualitative research in Humanitarian settings: A Latin American Perspective
- 12pm EST: University of Maryland Baltimore: Introduction to GitHub
- 1pm EST: Network of the National Library of Medicine: If You Share It, Will They Come? Exploring How Open Data Are Reused
- 1pm EST: Seton Hall University: Biomechanical Research Using Data
- 1pm EST: Webinar: Wait, ICPSR has that??
- 2pm EST: Athabasca University: An Introduction to Research Data Management
- 2pm EST: LabArchives: Open Office Hours and Drop-in Consults (60 minutes)
- 2pm EST: McGill University: Infrastructure at your finger tips: Advanced Research Computing resources in Canada
- 2pm EST: New York University: Workshop : Embedded Data in Efficient Survey Creation and Analysis
- 2pm EST: Seton Hall University: Data Narrative Assignment Workshop
- 2pm EST: Seton Hall University: Facts & Figures Zet Forward
- 4pm EST: New York University: Survey123
- 4pm EST: ProQuest: Gaining Data Insight with Text and Data Mining Using TDM Studio
Friday, February 12:
- 7am EST: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Coffee and Chat (in English and German)
- 11:30am EST: McGill University: Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization using VOSviewer
- 12pm EST: Harvard University: Data Management Checklists: Guides for the Data Lifecycle
- 12pm EST: University of Maryland Baltimore: Getting Connected to your Data – A Reproducible Workflow for Data Wrangling
- 1pm EST: Florida State University: Best Practices: Codebooks & Data Dictionaries
- 1pm EST: New York University: Introduction to EndNote for Qualitative Data Management
- 2pm EST: New York University: Careers in Data: Former NYU Data Services Student Consultants Share Their Experiences
- 5pm EST: University of Southern California: Bunker Hill Refrain: February Block Party
- 5:30pm EST: Seton Hall University: Douglass Day: Lifting As We Climb
Additional events listed by institution (visit the links below to register):
- Athabasca University
- Brown University
- Data Foundation
- Florida State University
- Harvard University Countway Library
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- ICPSR
- Maynooth University
- McGill University
- Network of the National Library of Medicine
- New York University
- Open Access
- ProQuest
- Seton Hall University
- Springer Nature
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of California at Davis
- University of California (multiple campuses)
- University of Delaware
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Maryland Baltimore (#UMBLovesData)
- University of Southern California
Questions or comments? Send a message to the new international Love Data Week email address, LoveDataWeek@umich.edu.
Related:
International Love Data Week website 2016 - 2020 (Archived Content) - Pre-2022 Information
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Looking for information from Love Data Week before 2022? Find events and additional information archived here.