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10 Ways to Celebrate and Get Involved in Love Data Week

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Love Data Week 2026: "Where’s The Data?"

DUTC is joining in on celebrating Love Data Week, an international week-long event exploring critical questions about data ownership and origins. This year's theme challenges us to examine where data comes from and who owns it before we use it in our work.

Whether you're a first-time participant or a returning supporter, here are 10 ways to celebrate and get involved:

  1. Connect with everyone on Bluesky (@lovedataweek.bsky.social) and Instagram @lovedataweek.
  2. Participate virtually in Love Data Week activities through the online calendar of events.

  3. Host your own event or activity. Want it added to the calendar? Submit your events to add them! Event ideas include:

    • Host a data management and sharing workshop
    • Demonstrate data discovery using preferred archives
    • Join ICPSR's annual Adopt a Dataset Program
    • Showcase impactful local data-driven research
    • Share innovative approaches to teaching with data
    • Coordinate a data-thon for analyzing key topics
    • Organize a data contribution party using platforms like Zooniverse
    • Explore data governance and management
    • Discuss data sovereignty, such as Indigenous data
    • Examine copyright and other intellectual property associated with data
  4. Recognize colleagues for their participation in Love Data Week activities and events with a Love Data Week-specific Certificate of Participation.
  5. Post your own Love Data Week activities on social media with the hashtag #LoveData26.
  6. Use a cool Love Data Week background graphic as your Zoom background or screensaver.
  7. Download, print, and share Love Data Week stickers with friends, students, and colleagues.
  8. Have a data trivia contest with your team, office, staff, classroom, students, or family and share how it went.
  9. Spread the word about Love Data Week 2026 to maximize participation and creative events.
  10. Sign up to receive Love Data Week update emails to get the latest news on activities and posts!

Let’s share the love in the community. See you at the upcoming events!

Interested in expanding your data skills? You can also check out our upcoming Open Science events here: https://www.opensciencetraining.org/