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- Feb 1012:00 AMLove Data Week 2025: Data Haiku ContestAbout the Data Haiku Contest Write a haiku about data! Your haiku must be related to data in some way (e.g., data management, processing, sharing, preservation, reuse, etc.). The contest is open to current Notre Dame students and employees. One submission per person. Submissions are due by noon on Friday, February 14. What is a Haiku? Haikus have a rigid structure of 17 syllables divided across three lines. The first line should have five syllables, the second line should have seven syllables, and the third line should have five syllables. Haikus do not need to rhyme. Haiku Example Title: PreprocessingCleaning, reducingand ignoring outliers.Only one case left. Author: Arnon Hershkovitz Prizes Three winners will receive an "I Love Data" coffee mug. Winning haikus will be selected by a panel of judges. Authors of winning and honorable mention entries will be notified via email on February 17 and will be posted on the Data Haiku event page. See the 2024 Love Data Haiku contest winners. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 1012:00 AMLove Data Week 2025: Study Break — Participatory LEGO Data Visualization & Valentine SnacksThroughout Love Data Week, stop in front of the Data Viz Lab (249 Hesburgh Library) for Valentine snacks and add your data point to an ongoing LEGO participatory data visualization. Add your block to the scatterplot(s): How long does it take you to get from your home to the library? How often do you visit the library in a semester? This activity is based on Elsie Lee-Robbins’ work on participatory LEGO visualizations. Watch Lee-Robbins talk about LEGOs and data. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 1112:00 AMLove Data Week 2025: Data Haiku ContestAbout the Data Haiku Contest Write a haiku about data! Your haiku must be related to data in some way (e.g., data management, processing, sharing, preservation, reuse, etc.). The contest is open to current Notre Dame students and employees. One submission per person. Submissions are due by noon on Friday, February 14. What is a Haiku? Haikus have a rigid structure of 17 syllables divided across three lines. The first line should have five syllables, the second line should have seven syllables, and the third line should have five syllables. Haikus do not need to rhyme. Haiku Example Title: PreprocessingCleaning, reducingand ignoring outliers.Only one case left. Author: Arnon Hershkovitz Prizes Three winners will receive an "I Love Data" coffee mug. Winning haikus will be selected by a panel of judges. Authors of winning and honorable mention entries will be notified via email on February 17 and will be posted on the Data Haiku event page. See the 2024 Love Data Haiku contest winners. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 1112:00 AMLove Data Week 2025: Study Break — Participatory LEGO Data Visualization & Valentine SnacksThroughout Love Data Week, stop in front of the Data Viz Lab (249 Hesburgh Library) for Valentine snacks and add your data point to an ongoing LEGO participatory data visualization. Add your block to the scatterplot(s): How long does it take you to get from your home to the library? How often do you visit the library in a semester? This activity is based on Elsie Lee-Robbins’ work on participatory LEGO visualizations. Watch Lee-Robbins talk about LEGOs and data. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 117:00 PM(Love Data Week 2025) Workshop: "'R' for Absolute Beginners"An introduction to R, a commonly-used language for data and statistical analysis and visualization. This introductory workshop aims to provide a quick “swimming” lesson to students, scholars, practitioners, and researchers who want to dive into the world of R. R is a free and open-source programming language that is widely used for data and statistical analysis and data visualization. RStudio is a free user interface, which we will use to write and run an R script and interact with our data. In the course of this hour-long workshop, participants will learn to:Create an R script in the RStudio environment.Write basic R to perform mathematical operations and print out a greeting.Annotate code using comments so that we can share our work.Load in a dataset, subset data, and explore data types.This workshop is for those who are curious about tools for analyzing or visualizing their data, or if they've heard about R and want to know what it’s all about. In advance of the session, please install the R programming language and RStudio. No programming experience necessary — just bring yourself and a laptop! About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 1212:00 AMLove Data Week 2025: Data Haiku ContestAbout the Data Haiku Contest Write a haiku about data! Your haiku must be related to data in some way (e.g., data management, processing, sharing, preservation, reuse, etc.). The contest is open to current Notre Dame students and employees. One submission per person. Submissions are due by noon on Friday, February 14. What is a Haiku? Haikus have a rigid structure of 17 syllables divided across three lines. The first line should have five syllables, the second line should have seven syllables, and the third line should have five syllables. Haikus do not need to rhyme. Haiku Example Title: PreprocessingCleaning, reducingand ignoring outliers.Only one case left. Author: Arnon Hershkovitz Prizes Three winners will receive an "I Love Data" coffee mug. Winning haikus will be selected by a panel of judges. Authors of winning and honorable mention entries will be notified via email on February 17 and will be posted on the Data Haiku event page. See the 2024 Love Data Haiku contest winners. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 1212:00 AMLove Data Week 2025: Study Break — Participatory LEGO Data Visualization & Valentine SnacksThroughout Love Data Week, stop in front of the Data Viz Lab (249 Hesburgh Library) for Valentine snacks and add your data point to an ongoing LEGO participatory data visualization. Add your block to the scatterplot(s): How long does it take you to get from your home to the library? How often do you visit the library in a semester? This activity is based on Elsie Lee-Robbins’ work on participatory LEGO visualizations. Watch Lee-Robbins talk about LEGOs and data. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 121:00 PM(Love Data Week 2025) Workshop: "Writing Data Management and Sharing Plans for Federal Grants"Join us for a workshop discussing various aspects of data management-sharing topics specific to federal funding agency data management and sharing policies. We will review the key guidelines from policies from the NIH and NEH and share information about ND resources that may be useful to you as you implement your data management plan. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 1312:00 AMLove Data Week 2025: Data Haiku ContestAbout the Data Haiku Contest Write a haiku about data! Your haiku must be related to data in some way (e.g., data management, processing, sharing, preservation, reuse, etc.). The contest is open to current Notre Dame students and employees. One submission per person. Submissions are due by noon on Friday, February 14. What is a Haiku? Haikus have a rigid structure of 17 syllables divided across three lines. The first line should have five syllables, the second line should have seven syllables, and the third line should have five syllables. Haikus do not need to rhyme. Haiku Example Title: PreprocessingCleaning, reducingand ignoring outliers.Only one case left. Author: Arnon Hershkovitz Prizes Three winners will receive an "I Love Data" coffee mug. Winning haikus will be selected by a panel of judges. Authors of winning and honorable mention entries will be notified via email on February 17 and will be posted on the Data Haiku event page. See the 2024 Love Data Haiku contest winners. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 1312:00 AMLove Data Week 2025: Study Break — Participatory LEGO Data Visualization & Valentine SnacksThroughout Love Data Week, stop in front of the Data Viz Lab (249 Hesburgh Library) for Valentine snacks and add your data point to an ongoing LEGO participatory data visualization. Add your block to the scatterplot(s): How long does it take you to get from your home to the library? How often do you visit the library in a semester? This activity is based on Elsie Lee-Robbins’ work on participatory LEGO visualizations. Watch Lee-Robbins talk about LEGOs and data. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 1311:00 AM(Love Data Week 2025) Workshop: "Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Python"A gentle introduction to Python and the NLTK; learn how to compute against your readings. Python is a popular programming language for doing text mining and natural language processing. The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a very popular suite of Python modules, making the process of text mining easier. This workshop is a gentle introduction to Python and the NLTK. It will demonstrate some of the Toolkit's functionality. By the end of the workshop, you will have dipped your toe into the waters of Python and been exposed to the inner workings of the NLTK. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 1412:00 AMLove Data Week 2025: Data Haiku ContestAbout the Data Haiku Contest Write a haiku about data! Your haiku must be related to data in some way (e.g., data management, processing, sharing, preservation, reuse, etc.). The contest is open to current Notre Dame students and employees. One submission per person. Submissions are due by noon on Friday, February 14. What is a Haiku? Haikus have a rigid structure of 17 syllables divided across three lines. The first line should have five syllables, the second line should have seven syllables, and the third line should have five syllables. Haikus do not need to rhyme. Haiku Example Title: PreprocessingCleaning, reducingand ignoring outliers.Only one case left. Author: Arnon Hershkovitz Prizes Three winners will receive an "I Love Data" coffee mug. Winning haikus will be selected by a panel of judges. Authors of winning and honorable mention entries will be notified via email on February 17 and will be posted on the Data Haiku event page. See the 2024 Love Data Haiku contest winners. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 1412:00 AMLove Data Week 2025: Study Break — Participatory LEGO Data Visualization & Valentine SnacksThroughout Love Data Week, stop in front of the Data Viz Lab (249 Hesburgh Library) for Valentine snacks and add your data point to an ongoing LEGO participatory data visualization. Add your block to the scatterplot(s): How long does it take you to get from your home to the library? How often do you visit the library in a semester? This activity is based on Elsie Lee-Robbins’ work on participatory LEGO visualizations. Watch Lee-Robbins talk about LEGOs and data. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- Feb 1412:00 AMPublic Domain Day 2025: Music ContestAbout the Music Contest Using at least one pre-1925 sound recording and any other free or original music, create a musical project highlighting some of the new material available in the public domain. Some examples of projects include:Mash-ups Remixes Oral histories over one or more songs Original music with public domain sampling Playlists around a themeSee additional contest guidelines and resources. See 2024 Music Contest winners. Submit your project Submit your project using this Google Form. The project deadline is Sunday, February 16. Note: Please remember as you are looking through the public domain that historical sound recordings may include harmful, biased, prejudiced, and outdated views. Related LibGuide: Public Domain Day Music ContestOpen to undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff
- Apr 412:00 AMHesburgh Libraries Hackathon 2025Hackathon Overview The Hesburgh Libraries Hackathon challenges teams of 2-4 Notre Dame undergraduate students to design, create, and present a solution to everyday problems. The 2025 theme is "We Rise Together: Coding for a Better Collective Future." Teams will develop solutions that leverage technology to discover, visualize, or create connections among people, ideas, data, and more. When & Where April 4 – 6Hesburgh Library April 4, 6pm – 7pmOrientation and PizzaCompetition Begins April 5, noon – 6pmTeam Roster and Project Description Form DueSupper Available April 6, noon – 3pmLunchLightning Talks, Judging, Raffles, Awards See the full schedule. Prizes Teams showcase their projects in lightning talks, with the top entries garnering awards. 1st Place – $3,0002nd Place – $2,0003rd Place – $1,000Honorable Mention(s) – $500 See previous Hackathons. Click here to download the event poster.
- Apr 512:00 AMHesburgh Libraries Hackathon 2025Hackathon Overview The Hesburgh Libraries Hackathon challenges teams of 2-4 Notre Dame undergraduate students to design, create, and present a solution to everyday problems. The 2025 theme is "We Rise Together: Coding for a Better Collective Future." Teams will develop solutions that leverage technology to discover, visualize, or create connections among people, ideas, data, and more. When & Where April 4 – 6Hesburgh Library April 4, 6pm – 7pmOrientation and PizzaCompetition Begins April 5, noon – 6pmTeam Roster and Project Description Form DueSupper Available April 6, noon – 3pmLunchLightning Talks, Judging, Raffles, Awards See the full schedule. Prizes Teams showcase their projects in lightning talks, with the top entries garnering awards. 1st Place – $3,0002nd Place – $2,0003rd Place – $1,000Honorable Mention(s) – $500 See previous Hackathons. Click here to download the event poster.
- Apr 612:00 AMHesburgh Libraries Hackathon 2025Hackathon Overview The Hesburgh Libraries Hackathon challenges teams of 2-4 Notre Dame undergraduate students to design, create, and present a solution to everyday problems. The 2025 theme is "We Rise Together: Coding for a Better Collective Future." Teams will develop solutions that leverage technology to discover, visualize, or create connections among people, ideas, data, and more. When & Where April 4 – 6Hesburgh Library April 4, 6pm – 7pmOrientation and PizzaCompetition Begins April 5, noon – 6pmTeam Roster and Project Description Form DueSupper Available April 6, noon – 3pmLunchLightning Talks, Judging, Raffles, Awards See the full schedule. Prizes Teams showcase their projects in lightning talks, with the top entries garnering awards. 1st Place – $3,0002nd Place – $2,0003rd Place – $1,000Honorable Mention(s) – $500 See previous Hackathons. Click here to download the event poster.