Love Data Week is an international event celebrated annually during February, typically around Valentine’s Day. The event aims to raise awareness of the pervasive role of data in our lives and build a community to engage on topics related to data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse, as well as data services. 

To help students at UT celebrate Love Data Week, the UT Libraries hosted weeklong festivities including a tabling event with data partners from across campus, workshops about data, resource showcases, and lots of free cake! To fit the 2024 theme, “My Kind of Data,” the Libraries’ Data and Digital Scholarship department targeted materials toward students who may not see their experiences as data related. 

Love Data Week presents a great opportunity for students to explore data and understand how it impacts everyone’s lives, both academically and personally. By hosting a fun low-stakes event, librarians hoped to make data easy to understand for all students, regardless of their technical background.