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What is International Love Data Week?
Love Data Week is an annual opportunity 'to celebrate data in all its forms, promote good research data management strategies, share data success and horror stories, and ask hard questions about the role of data in our lives' (ICPSR, n.d.)
How do the University of Waterloo Libraries celebrate International Love Data Week?
Since 2024, the University of Waterloo Libraries have hosted workshops and library lobby takeover events. On this site, you will find more details about previous and upcoming workshops, including in some cases recordings, slides, and other handouts used in the workshops.
Previous Love Data Weeks
2025: Whose data is it, anyway?
The 2025 theme, "Whose Data Is It, Anyway?", explores data ownership versus usage. Data collected by groups such as researchers, governments, companies, or organizations may be owned, shared, published online, or combined. This year's theme helps us think about and remember to consider where the data came from before using it.
2024: My kind of data
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.