#Love Data Week – University Libraries

Love Data Week 2026 – Revisiting This Important Event

Seton Hall University Libraries’ Research Data Services Team hosted its ninth annual Love Data Week from February 9 – 13, 2026 with workshops on topics including AI, Ethics and the Law, Powering AI within Excel, and a Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon event. This international event, sponsored by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the premier social science data repository hosted by the University of Michigan, celebrates data analysis and data science in all its forms.

This year’s Love Data Week theme was “Where’s the Data?” – a way to get people thinking about data’s journey from collection through storage and preservation. The theme opens up exciting possibilities for interactive programming, whether hosting data-themed games, building data literacy skills, or diving into the ethics of responsible data use. Our goal is to connect everyone – from data newcomers to veterans – with the training and resources they need to make progress on issues close to their hearts

Seton Hall University Libraries is a member of ICPSR. ICPSR partners with several federal statistical agencies and foundations to create collections organized around specific topics ranging from the Child and Family Data Archive to the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program. Learn more about ICPSR @SHU [here].

Love Data Week also provides international exposure for Seton Hall. Past years’ events have attracted attendees from international institutions, including the University of Cologne, Germany; the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic; and Krakow University of Economics, Poland. Attendees from U.S. institutions include the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation and the Health Resources and Services Administration.

According to Samah Alshrief, data specialist, “Love Data Week is one of my favorite events of the academic year because it brings together our community to celebrate the power of data, and what makes it even more exciting is the opportunity to connect with a global community through ICPSR, seeing how universities and institutions worldwide are innovating with data.” Alshrief continues, “There is something special about dedicating an entire week to data. Love Data Week gives us the space to explore new ideas and learn from others.”

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Love Data Week 2024

Seton Hall University Libraries is proud to announce that our annual Love Data Week celebration is returning the week of February 12th. We welcome all students, faculty, and staff to register for each of these presentations that will be featured via Teams live stream.

For more information you can refer to our Love Data Week Library Guide and you can register for this event in advance Here.

Questions? Please feel free to reach out to us for more details on the event and any information related to the University Libraries Here.

University Libraries Announces Love Data Week Schedule for 2023

The University Libraries Research Data Management team presents SHU’s 6^th Annual Love Data Week, from Monday, February 13^th to Friday, February 17^th, 2023. This popular week of events was launched to highlight the new direction in academic libraries to find, manage, analyze, and visualize data. These services are critical for enhancing the quality of student coursework, faculty and student research, access to collections as well as graduate retention. Registration for all events here.

This year’s workshops range from Github for Researchers to Python for Quantitative Research as well as topics in finance and leisure reading. The Data Discovery session on February 15 will show data subscriptions available to the SHU community to enhance research, grant proposals, and even one’s personal life. PolicyMap, for example, is an easy to use mapping tool that allows a user to explore U.S. neighborhoods where the SHU community lives, works or volunteers. PolicyMap is used across SHU in disciplines ranging from Public Health to Education and Business Writing with Professor Greg Iannarella.

SCHEDULE:

High-Performing Investments for the Socially Conscious

Monday, February 13, 2023, 10:00am – 11:00am, Dr. Anthony Loviscek

Python for Quantitative Research

Monday, February 13, 2023, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Malik M. Redwood, ’24

GitHub for Researchers: Mastering Collaboration and Version Control

Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 11:00am – 12:00pm, Ms. Salah Muddathth

Index Developing in Python Creating “Financial Attractiveness Index”

Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Dr. Olga Komissarova

Data Discovery: Navigating ICPSR, PolicyMaps, Statista, and Living Atlas of the World

Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 2:00pm – 3:00pm, Dr. Samah Alshrief

Logistical Regression Modeling in Stata

Thursday, February 16, 2023, 11:00am – 12:00pm, Dr. Samah Alshrief

What’s on Your TBR? Predicting Five-Star Reads with Book Data

Friday, February 17, 2023, 11:00am – 11:30am, Professor Maria Barca

Registration is here and workshops will run virtually Eastern Standard Time. All sessions will be recorded and shared. Please email data.services@shu.edu with questions.

University Libraries Assistant Dean for Public Services, Lisa DeLuca remarks, “University Libraries has steadily increased the size of our Research Data Management team over the past three years to include six librarians across two campuses in South Orange and Nutley plus lead data analyst Samah Alshrief, PhD, ‘22. The team is led by Sharon Ince, Interim Assistant Dean of Information Technology and Collection Services and Assistant Dean DeLuca.

The planning committee for Love Data Week includes librarians including Professor Michael Murphy who supports the value of this initiative: “I’m very excited by the mix of new and returning speakers and the breadth of topics being covered this year.” Professor Murphy is the liaison to the School of Diplomacy and International Relations and the Department of Political Science & Public Affairs. Professor Murphy also coordinates DiploLab, a collaborative research space run by Dr. Joseph Huddleston. DiploLab allows students to explore their interests related to international relations, engage with faculty, and apply what they are learning beyond the classroom.

In addition, 2022 programs include great presentations about Seton Hall’s Collections Around the World and conversations about Data Ethics.