Love Data Week was established in 2016 as Love Your Data week. Originally created in the USA, it quickly grew to an international event in which a wide range of institutions, organizations, scholars, students, and other data lovers could celebrate their data. In 2021, ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) became the official hosting institution for Love Data Week, serving as a landing page and resource guide for all institutions celebrating the annual initiative.
Leading up to Love Data Week (February 10-14), Purdue participated in the BTAA Data Viz Championship, which provided students and faculty an opportunity to showcase data viz skills and compete for the BTAA Data Viz Champion title with prizes, recognition, and scholarships. To learn more about the contest and see past winning data visualizations, check out Purdue's Institutional Data Analytics + Assessment Love Data page.
In addition, Purdue Libraries (West Lafayette + Fort Wayne) will be hosting a five part series in "Dealing with Data" to celebrate data and understand its many roles in our lives, specifically within Purdue's research ecosystem. Each session will explore a new theme related to data with the final session presenting data visualizations from students, faculty, or staff from multiple disciplines across campus. The series will begin during Love Data Week and continue through April on select Tuesdays from 3-4:00pm. More information about each session and how to register is provided below.
Title: Effective Research Data Management
Details: We will be discussing all things data management including finding data, the why's and how's of open data, navigating federal policy, and best practices in managing data.
Speakers: Kelly Burns, MLIS, Research Data Management Specialist, Purdue University Libraries | Erika Mann, MLIS, Director of Digital Initiatives, Technology, and Scholarship, Purdue Fort Wayne
Title: What is Data Science?
Details: In this talk, I will try to answer the question: "What is Data Science?". The discussion will cover from etymological considerations to comparisons between data science and machine learning and statistics. The talk is intended for a wide audience.
Speaker: Alessandro Selvitella, Assistant Professor of Data Science and Applied Statistics - Purdue Fort Wayne
Title: Metadata in the Age of AI
Details: The speakers will present metadata and data description, and discuss their role in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for AI tutor
Speakers: Wei Zakharov, Associate Professor and Engineering Information Specialist in the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies
Zichen Miao, Ph.D Candidate in Computer Engineering
Colby Acton, Undergraduate Researcher in Computer Engineering
Qiang Qiu, Associate Professor in Computer Engineering
Title: The Secret Lives of Algorithms: What Your Data Knows That You Don't
Details: Our speaker will discuss:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 3:00-4:00 PM - hosted virtually on Teams (hybrid in-person PFW Helmke Library)
Registration link: Love Data: Data + AI
Speakers: Our guest speaker, Ashish, is a Senior Research Data Scientist from Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing
Title: Love Data 2025: Data Visualization Showcase
Details: Support Purdue student researchers as they showcase their data visualizations from recent work covering multiple disciplines! These will be live and recorded presentations. We will also have a short presentation from Gartner, partnering with Purdue IT to connect our community to timely, real-world examples and content about technology, applicable to many facets of education - including engineering, finance and business.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 3:00-4:00 PM (virtual event)
Registration link: Data Visualization Showcase
Speakers: Multiple
