Dearest Data,
Will you be my valentine? I promise to love and cherish you and brag about you to all my peers.
February 13-17, 2023 is a week dedicated to sharing tips and shining the spotlight on best practices to manage, protect, preserve, and publish your data.
The 2023 theme of Love Data Week is Data: Agent of Change.
“Love Data Week is about inspiring your community to use data to bring about changes that matter. Policy change, environmental change, social change... we can move mountains with the right data guiding our decisions. This year, we are focused on helping new and seasoned data users find data training and other resources that can help move the needle on the issues they care about.” (International Love Data Week 2023)
At Arizona State University, we are committed to being transparent about our data, using research to solve problems and create good in the world, and making that data and research freely accessible.
“ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.” (ASU Charter, Mission and Goals | New American University)
ASU Library’s Open Science and Scholarly Communication division connects researchers and instructors with open data resources. Open access eliminates barriers, such as price and copyright restrictions, increasing the availability of scholarly resources and guaranteeing research is searchable online at no cost. You can visit the ASU Research Data Repository, a platform for ASU-affiliated researchers to share, preserve, cite, and make research data accessible and discoverable to learn more.
Research data is valuable and generated in many forms. Not only can it cost a lot of money to generate and acquire data, but it holds the value of enhancing our understanding of phenomena. You can show your data some love by sharing it with other researchers. Placing your data in a trusted repository, like the ASU Research Data Repository, allows it to be reused by graduate students, faculty and researchers, furthering its reach and saving time. Your data can be used to solve more than one occurrence while you continue to get credit for the data set. Being transparent about your data establishes trust. FAIR data (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) are the foundation of good science.
Getting Involved:
There are many ways to get involved in Love Data Week, whether you are a data scientist, college student, librarian, or anyone who wants to see data at work! Feeling overwhelmed on how to get started?
Love Data Week is full of free online events to help you get started with data analysis, data management, and data visualization. There are even social events and games! Check out the International Love Data Week 2023 - List of Events to find the right event for you.
Our research data management guide highlights beginner workshops, including the ASU Library's Introduction to Data Science Open Labs and workshops, where you can register for our February 22nd Introduction to data management virtual lab.
Follow along on twitter using #LoveData23!
