International Love Data Week is a celebration of data, taking place every February during the week of Valentine’s Day, during which universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations, and individuals host and participate in data-related events and activities.
Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of research data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. We share practical tips, resources, and stories to help researchers at any stage in their career use good data practices. Research data are the foundation of the scholarly record and crucial for advancing our knowledge of the world around us.
Harvard Library participates each year by hosting workshops, sharing tips and resources, and spreading awareness of the importance of research data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research data, please join us! Access presentations and materials from previous years on Open Science Framework.
Love Data Week 2025: February 10–14, 2025
This year’s Love Data Week explored ‘Whose Data is it Anyway?’ This helps us remember to think about where the data came from before using it.
Harvard libraries-hosted Love Data Week events:
- Navigating Data Ownership Policies at Harvard, Monday, February 10, 2025. This session addressed data ownership policies that play a critical role in shaping research practices, protecting sensitive information, and ensuring compliance with institutional, funder, and ethical standards. (OSRDS Slides, Recording)
- Data Management Offboarding for Research, Tuesday, February 11, 2025. This session reviewed the offboarding process from a Harvard lab or project and connected attendees with resources, tools, and templates used to help transfer critical knowledge between study team members and offboarding PIs. (OSRDS, Slides, Recording)
- Managing Geospatial Data x Map Making: A Love Data Week Exclusive, Wednesday, February 12, 2025. This presentation covered introductory framing to thinking about creating, augmenting, storing, and sharing any geospatial data used in your research projects. (Harvard Map Collection)
- Practice into Action: Tools to Confidently Plan, Manage, and Share Research Data at Harvard, Thursday, February 13, 2025. This session showcased how seamless workflows between RSpace, DMP Tool, and Dataverse can streamline research processes, enhance collaboration, and ensure FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research outputs. (OSRDS, Slides, Recording)
- Intro to NVivo (for Windows and Mac), Thursday, February 13, 2025. This session explored NVivo qualitative data analysis software using a variety of primary source materials including: interviews, focus groups, images, videos, surveys, and social media platforms. (Qualitative Support Group)
- Introduction to Data Visualization With Tableau, Friday, February 14, 2025. This hour-long workshop used a sample dataset to create several different types of visualization using Tableau and detailed how to combine graphs together to create interactive dashboards. (Digital Scholarship Support Group)
- Unlocking Scholarly Data: An Introduction to Bibliometrix, Friday, February 14, 2025. This session explored how to import data from major databases (Web of Science, PubMed, OpenAlex, etc.), conduct a variety of analyses, and visualize co-occurrence or co-citation networks. (Cabot Science Library)