Description
Love Data Week is an international celebration of data that takes place each year during February. Throughout February, the library is hosting a variety of events, workshops, and planning activities to celebrate data.
This series includes sessions specifically designed for researchers, as well as anyone who wants to learn more about data and how to work with it effectively.
Sessions include:
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Visualizing Data Using Everyday Objects
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. (In-Person)In this hands-on workshop, participants will use everyday objects such as LEGO, Playdough, and string to visualize data. Through interactive activities, attendees will learn the basics of data visualization, what it means to place data feminism at the heart of your data visualizations and gain new perspectives on representing information. This session is great for beginners and anyone looking to make data more engaging, accessible, and fun.
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Reaching Your Research Data Destination: Depositing Data in a Repository
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. (Online)Learn how sharing your data in a repository improves your visibility as a researcher, increases citations of your publications, gives you recognition for your work, attracts new collaborations, and most importantly allows for reproducibility and verification of results.
This session will help you:
- Explore the benefits of depositing and sharing your research data in a repository.
- Understand how the Tri-Agency Policy influences how data is deposited and shared.
- Describe the different research data repository options available.
- Prepare your research data for deposit.
- Consider licensing options for your research data.
- Summarize the steps of the data deposit process by viewing a live demo of depositing a dataset in the U of G Research Data Repositories
- Engage in an audience Q&A to address specific questions.
Register for Reaching Your Research Data Destination: Depositing Data in a Repository.
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Strengthening Ethical Research through Informed Consent
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. (Online)The informed consent process underpins the ethical conduct of human participant research. During Love Data Week, we are celebrating how this process helps nurture transparency in the research process, protect participant rights and safeguard data/information. Just as love thrives on trust and respect, a robust and ongoing consent process clarifies researcher responsibilities and fosters a healthy research environment. Consent template resources will be shared with attendees and there will be an opportunity for Q&A with Research Ethics staff. Join us in this special Love Data Week presentation to learn more about how ethical practices in research can “love” and protect the data that drives impactful discoveries!
Register for Strengthening Ethical Research through Informed Consent.
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Love Data? Finding Data
Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. (Online)In this workshop we will learn how to navigate Canadian census data for Love Data Week. What data can we find on love and relationships? Learn out to search Canadian data for the topics you need for your research and what options are available for digging deeper into data.
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Author Event: Sean Michaels Discusses the Origin and Creation of his Novel Do You Remember Being Born?
Monday, February 24, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. (In-Person)In 2019, Giller Prize-winning novelist had his first encounters with a different kind of AI. It was three years before the launch of ChatGPT, but he found himself beguiled, unsettled—and even a little compromised—by these early Large Language Models. He began working on a book exploring this disquiet, and imagining how a great poet might respond to such technology—a poet like the infamous Marianne Moore, in her cape and tricorn hat. The result, Do You Remember Being Born?, has been hailed by WIRED magazine as "the definitive novel about art in the age of AI," and by the New York Times as "a jumping-off point for timeless meditations on art, family, connection and the meaning of a life." On February 24, Sean visits University of Guelph to discuss the book's origin and its creation—which was undertaken partly, and in deliberate discomfort, with AI tools. In his talk, he will raise new questions about the serious challenges and surprising opportunities provoked by these discoveries, and force us to rethink what it can mean to "collaborate."
Learn more about how the library can support your research and data needs by visiting the library’s website.