Ready to jump head first into the wild world of data? Join us for an exciting slate of events during Love Data Week, Feb. 10-14! 

All week long we’ll be hosting online and in-person events to highlight the many data services we offer at UK Libraries. Learn about text mining and data applications during online workshops, attend a data-themed film screening, or get crafty while transforming a personal data set into a friendship bracelet!

Don’t forget to enter our ORCID iD lottery for a chance to win UK Libraries-branded prizes. If you don’t have an ORCID iD – a persistent digital identifier that creates a permanent record of your research and scholarly contributions – visit the lottery page to learn how to register for one for free.

Find more information about all of our events and register for workshops using the links below:
 

Monday, February 10 

• Love Data Week Kick-Off
  • The Stacks, 9am – 1pm
  • Stop by The Stacks: Digital Scholarship Center to learn about the week’s events, enjoy some snacks, and grab a data-themed button or sticker.
• Declutter Your Directories Workshop 
  • Online, 11am – 12pm 
  • This workshop will provide strategies for personal file management, keeping digital material well-organized, and creating well-documented and reusable datasets. 

Tuesday, February 11 

• Crafting Data: Friendship Bracelet Pop-Up 
  • The Stacks, 11am – 2pm
  • Join us for a fun and creative pop-up event where you'll develop your own personal dataset and learn how to transform it into a meaningful, wearable piece of art – a friendship bracelet!  

Wednesday, February 12 

• Introduction to Text Mining with Chronicling America Newspapers 
  • Online, 11am – 12pm 
  • This hands-on workshop will utilize the Chronicling America newspaper collection to provide an introduction to application programming interfaces (APIs) and text mining.
• Imitation Game Movie Screening
  • The Stacks, 6pm – 8pm
  • Join us for a screening of Imitation Game, a data-inspired film that tells the story of Alan Turing, whose work in mathematics and computer science changed the course of World War II.

Thursday, February 13 

• Navigating Data Applications: Choosing the Right Tools for your Analysis
  • Online, 9:30am – 10:30am 
  • This talk will guide you through understanding the strengths and weaknesses of seven leading statistical tools and two powerful data visualization platforms.  
• Crafting Data: Friendship Bracelet Pop-Up 
  • The Stacks, 11am – 2pm 
  • Join us for a fun and creative pop-up event where you'll develop your own personal dataset and learn how to transform it into a meaningful, wearable piece of art – a friendship bracelet!

Friday, February 14 

• UKnowledge Birthday Celebration 
  • The Stacks, 2pm – 3:30pm
  • Celebrate the 14th birthday of the university’s institutional repository, UKnowledge, and learn about new data sharing requirements from popular federal grants.

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Love Data Week is an international celebration of data hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) that raises awareness and builds community around research data.