The Love Data Week is an annual event to celebrate research data and research data management. Originally established at the University of Michigan within the ICPSR, an international consortium of more than 800 academic institutions and research organizations, the Love Data Week has become a worldwide event. In reference to love, it is celebrated in the second week of February, during Valentines Day.
Several higher education institutions have been participating in the Love Data Week since 2021. During the week they offer various workshops, talks and events focusing on research data management, mostly in digital form. The aim is to raise awareness, promote RDM tools and practices as well as guide researchers and other research support personnel in the field of research data management.
Here at the University of Toronto you can participate in the following events for Love Data Week:
Join us for a week of workshops:
Sage Resources for Using Data in Research and Instruction
Monday, Feb. 10, 10:00 a.m
Location: Online
Sage Research Methods can save you time and effort by providing a single platform to quickly find, explore, visualize, and share detailed data from the most trusted source providers. Come learn how to use this resource and explore potential use cases with us. Recommended for Librarians and Faculty members.
Introduction to Best Practices for Creating Infographics
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2:00 p.m.
Location: Online (UTSG)
Learn best practices to create infographics, which are a specific type of data visualization that uses a mix of data, visuals, and text to inform or persuade. Learning infographic creation skills and tools will help you promote yourself and your research findings, more effectively communicate with wide audiences, and stand out in the job market.
Introduction to Best Practices for Creating Infographics
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 10 a.m.
Location: Online (UTSG)
Learn best practices to create infographics, which are a specific type of data visualization that uses a mix of data, visuals, and text to inform or persuade. Learning infographic creation skills and tools will help you promote yourself and your research findings, more effectively communicate with wide audiences, and stand out in the job market.
Depositing Research Data in U of T Dataverse (Borealis)
Wednesday, Feb. 12, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Online (UTSG)
Are you interested in sharing your data with other researchers? Has a journal or funder asked you to share your data? In this session, participants will learn how to organize and publish research data in the University of Toronto Dataverse, U of T’s institutional data repository hosted by Borealis. Through a live-demo, participants will learn how to organize research data for deposit, upload and publish a dataset, and add appropriate metadata.
Data Resources for Entrepreneurs
Thursday, Feb. 13, 11:00 a.m.
Location: Online
Preparing a business pitch and developing a business idea requires you to have data on your target market. You need data to inform decisions on your business plan, data on your competitors, and if you want to be innovative in your industry you need data to tell you a story on performance and opportunity. Data literacy for entrepreneurs is essential.
Excel and Fundamentals of Data
Thursday, Feb 13., 3:00 p.m.
Location: The BRIDGE, UTSC
Did you miss our last session? Join us again as we walk through the basics of using data in spreadsheets with Excel or Google Sheets! Designed for those new to working with data and spreadsheets or interested in the Co-Curricular Record credit for the Foundational Data Literacy Skills training, there are no prerequisites and participants from every discipline are welcome.
Understanding SQL
Friday, Feb. 14, 3:00 p.m.
Location: The BRIDGE, UTSC
Ever been curious how Databases work? This workshop is for you! The workshop will cover the basics of understanding relational databases and how to request information from these databases using Structured Query Language (SQL).