Love Data Week: Whose Data Is It Anyway?
Universitywide
Love Data Week is an international event celebrated each year during the week of Valentine’s Day. Throughout Love Data Week, institutions worldwide host data-related events and engage with important issues in data collection, sharing, reuse, and preservation.
This year's Love Data Week theme is Whose Data Is It Anyway? This theme asks us to consider who owns data versus who uses data. Different groups, such as researchers, governments, companies, and organizations, may collect data. They could own it, share it, publish it online, or combine it. This theme is an important reminder to think about where data comes from before using it.
In celebration of this year’s Love Data Week (#LoveData25), Rutgers University Libraries are offering various workshops in areas such as coding, GIS, AI, data analysis, and data management.
Register for our 2025 Love Data Week workshops
Love Data Week! Introduction to Policy Map
Monday, February 10, 11:20 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. (Online)
Introduction to the online data and mapping application, Policy Map, which provides access to indicators related to U.S. housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs, demographics, and education.
Love Data Week! Finding, Creating and Working with GIS Data
Monday, February 10, noon to 1 p.m. (Online)
In this short, interactive workshop, learn how spatial data might enhance your research. We'll explore free and proprietary GIS (geographic information systems) data resources, search strategies to uncover available data; adapting public data for use, review critical data literacy and the importance of attribution, and discuss the process of building your own spatial datasets.
Love Data Week! Mastering Data Analysis: Pandas and NumPy Essentials
Monday, February 10, 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Online)
This workshop is designed to equip learners with powerful tools for data analysis in Python. Participants will delve into the world of NumPy, exploring its efficient arrays and array operations, which form the backbone of numerical computing in Python. The workshop then shifts to Pandas, where learners will get hands-on experience with its fundamental data structures: Series and DataFrame. This comprehensive session is ideal for anyone looking to enhance their data analysis skills, offering the tools needed to unlock insights from data with efficiency and precision.
Love Data Week: Political Thinker Hannah Arendt Transcribe-a-Thon
Tuesday, February 11, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. (Robeson Library)
This transcribe-a-thon will help the Library of Congress By the People project transcribe the letters of Hannah Arendt. Training on the transcription of primary source materials will be provided. Computers are provided. Participants may come or leave at any time during the event. Refreshments will be available throughout the event.
Love Data Week! R Graphics with ggplot2
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Online)
The ggplot2 package from the tidyverse provides extensive and ?exible graphical capabilities within a consistent framework. This session introduces the main features of ggplot2. Some prior familiarity with R is assumed (packages, structure, syntax), but the presentation can be followed without this background.
Love Data Week! DMPTool for NIH and NSF Data Management Plans
Thursday, February 13, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Online)
Create data management and sharing plans that meet funder requirements using DMPTool. Features of this plan writing tool will be demonstrated, with tips for writing plans for NIH and NSF. Information about selecting data repositories will also be presented. There will be time at the end for Q&A – please bring your data management questions!
Love Data Week! Finding and Creating Textual Data in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Thursday, February 13, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (Online)
Just because the Libraries subscribe doesn't necessarily mean that we have text and data mining (TDM) rights. This workshop provides a brief tour through the rights and technical issues associated with the creation of textual data for computational text analysis in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. We will examine some commonly used sources of historic and contemporary textual data, including primary source collections, web APIs, open data collections, and, yes, library databases.
Love Data Week! Frederick Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon
Friday, February 14, noon to 3 p.m. (Alexander Library)
Douglass Day 2025 will focus on materials from the "African American Perspectives" collection at the Library of Congress. Training on the transcription of primary source materials will be provided. Bring a laptop! Participants may come or leave at any time during the event.
Love Data Week! Introduction to NVivo
Friday, February 14, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (Online)
NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software that helps researchers manage, code, and markup data for both mixed methods and qualitative studies. This workshop introduces the NVivo workspace and basic features, including organizing data, making mind maps, and getting acquainted with data coding.
View our full calendar of events.