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Join University Libraries for Love Data Week February 10-14, 2025

A heart shape over a laptop device.Seton Hall University Libraries’ Research Data Services Team is hosting its eighth annual Love Data Week from February 10 - 14 with workshops on topics including automation in Python, research computing and a Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon event. This international event, sponsored by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the premier social science data repository hosted by the University of Michigan, celebrates data analysis and data science in all its forms. This year’s theme is "Whose Data Is It Anyway?" to encourage thinking critically about data ownership.

The following events are planned:

  • Research Data Services at Seton Hall University presented by Michael Murphy
  • Analyzing Policy Impact with Interrupted Time Series in Python presented by Samah Alshrief, Ph.D.
  • Introduction to Research Computing presented by Samah Alshrief, Ph.D.
  • Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon hosted by Natalie Lau and Alan Delozier
  • Automating Excel Reporting with Python presented by Samah Alshrief, Ph.D.
  • Grammar of Graphic Programming: Tufte and Scientific Coding presented by Jason Bundy
  • A/B Testing in Python presented by Olga Komissarova, Ph.D.

View all the upcoming events here.

Love Data Week (LDW) is an international celebration of data, aiming to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse and library-based research data services.

This year, Love Data Week 2025’s theme invites us to question the power and responsibility behind data. "Whose Data Is It, Anyway?" reminds us that before we use data, we must consider where it comes from, who owns it and how it impacts individuals and communities.

Seton Hall University Libraries is a member of ICPSR. ICPSR partners with several federal statistical agencies and foundations to create collections organized around specific topics ranging from the Child and Family Data Archive to the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program. Learn more about ICPSR @SHU [here].

Love Data Week also provides international exposure for Seton Hall. Past years’ events have attracted attendees from international institutions, including the University of Cologne, Germany; the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic; and Krakow University of Economics, Poland. Attendees from U.S. institutions include the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation and the Health Resources and Services Administration.

According to Samah Alshrief, data specialist, “Love Data Week is one of my favorite events of the academic year because it brings together our community to celebrate the power of data, and what makes it even more exciting is the opportunity to connect with a global community through ICPSR, seeing how universities and institutions worldwide are innovating with data.” Alshrief continues, “There is something special about dedicating an entire week to data. Love Data Week gives us the space to explore new ideas and learn from others.”

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