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Love Data Week: Events and Activities

This guide is intended for Appalachian State University faculty, staff, and students who are interested in learning more about Love Data Week.

2025 - Live Events, Activities, and Pre-Recorded Webinars

Ideas for engaging with Love Data Week through a curated list of daily events and activities are highlighted below. For a list of additional virtual events celebrating Love Data Week, please see this Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) web page.

Monday, February 10, 2025

  • Survival Skills: Using Computers for Scholarly Research - webinar hosted by the University of Oklahoma Libraries.
    • 1 p.m. CST. 
    • Register here. (Limited spaces available )
  • What Are Data? (2016) - hosted by the UNC Odum Institute (used under CC BY)
    • Watch the 2:49 minute, pre-recorded video on YouTube here.
  • The Human Insights Missing from Big Data (2016) - TEDx-Cambridge Talk by Tricia Wang.
    • Watch the 16:02, pre-recorded video on YouTube here.
  • Join the conversation and help celebrate all things data! Share your Love Data Week insights and reflections on social media throughout the week. #LoveData25

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

  • AI and Data Sharing: A Love/Hate Relationship?  - webinar hosted by ICPSR.
    • 11 a.m. EST. 
    • Register here.
  • ICPSR Loves Data - webinar hosted by ICPSR.
    • 1 p.m. EST. 
    • Register here.
  • Data Use in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2024) - pre-recorded webinar hosted by ICPSR's Lynette Hoelter and Joseph Saul
    • Watch the 54:48 minute, pre-recorded webinar here.
  • Adopt a dataset! More information from ICPSR coming soon.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

  • Survival Skills: Formatting Information for Analysis - webinar hosted by the University of Oklahoma Libraries.
    • 10 a.m. CST
    • Register here. (Limited spaces available)
  • Managing Research Data (2012) - video from the Digital Curation Centre (used under CC BY)
    • Watch the 12:35 minute, pre-recorded video on YouTube here.
  • Data Sharing and Management Snafu in 3 Short Acts (2012) - animation by Karen Hanson, Alisa Surkis and Karen Yacobucci, NYU Health Sciences Library (under CC BY)
    • Watch the 4:40 minute, pre-recorded video on YouTube here.
  • Rethinking Research Data (2015) - TEDx-UWMilwaukee Talk by Kristin Briney
    • Watch the 15:05 minute, pre-recorded video on YouTube here

Thursday, February 13, 2025

  • Indigenous Data Sovereignty: The Elements of Care - webinar hosted by The Ohio State University Libraries.
    • 2:30 EST. 
    • Register here.
  • A Story of Data Won, Data Lost and Data Re-Found: The Realities of Ecological Data Preservation (2019) - webinar with Alison Specht, hosted by DataOne (under CC BY).
    • Watch the 60 minute, pre-recorded video here.

Friday, February 14, 2025

  • Tidy-ing Your Data: Simple Steps for Reproducible Research (2019) - webinar with Jeanette Clark, hosted by DataOne (under CC BY). 
    • Watch the 60 minute, pre-recorded video here.
  • Wrap up Love Data Week with a short quiz!
    • Take the 11-question, multiple-choice quiz (Google Form) here.

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