Love Data Week 2024
Love Data Week at TXST Alkek Library
February 12–16, 2024
Love Data Week is an international celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine's Day. The purpose of Love Data Week is to raise awareness and build a community around research data. Read more about the history of the Love Data Week.
This year’s theme is My Kind of Data, which is about inspiring our community to use data to bring about changes that matter. At TXST, Love Data Week 2024 is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of open data, data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and open data, please join us!
Love Data Week Events
Love Data Week 2024 at TXST
Open Datathon Orientation and Keynote
February 12, 2024, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Alkek Library, RM 440
The Open Scholarship team at University Libraries is excited to host the inaugural Open Datathon during International Love Data Week. The goal of this Datathon event encompasses the commitment of TXST to innovation, community engagement, and leveraging open data for meaningful impact. The Orientation and Keynote session welcomes all Texas State University students, faculty, and staff to engage in an opening talk featuring a keynote speaker discussing topics related to open science and open data. We will unveil challenges and research topics for exploration, participate in team building and networking, and gear up for the Datathon competition kick-off. Participants will also be able to meet our esteemed judges and get insights into the presentation rubric. Don't miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of open data and collaborative exploration!
View Open Datathon Orientation and Keynote Presentation Slides
Love Data Week 2024 at TXST
Open Data Resources and Data Management Skills in File Naming
This session has already taken place. View slides here.
February 13, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Zoom.
Love Data Week 2024 at TXST
Love Data Day: Good Practice in Managing Data on Spreadsheet
This session has already taken place. View slides here.
February 14, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Zoom.
Love Data Week 2024 at TXST
Open Data and Datathon Virtual Office Hours
February 13-15, 2024, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Zoom
Love Data Week 2024 at TXST
Open Datathon Presentation and Award Notification
Signup Here
February 16, 2024, 1 - 3:00 pm, Location: Alkek Library, RM 441
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Texas Data Repository: A statewide collaboration of Texas higher education institutions
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Texas County Data: It provides data by county including age, detailed tax rates, education/unemployment, ethnicity/race, financial/tax summary, general information (land area, water area, total area, percent urban, percent rural), income/poverty, population.
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Texas Tribune Data: Requires Google sign-in, Texas Public Schools Explorer and Higher Education Outcomes.
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Texas Higher Education Data (THECB): THECB links to sources of data, statistics, and reports on higher education in Texas.
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Regional Data and Analysis - NCTCOG: A collection of tabular datasets and geographic information by the North Central Texas Council of Governments. Major focus areas include population, employment, land use, development, and geospatial data.
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Texas Open Data Portal: Administrative data reported by various departments in Texas.
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Texas Higher Education Data (THED): The Texas Higher Education Data (THED) website is Texas' primary source for statistics on higher education.
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Texas Health Data: This site contains public data and statistics on various health topics.
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DataLab - National Center for Education Statistics” Supported by NCES, the data lab provides QuickStats, PowerStats, and TrandStats for users to create tables and charts and conduct simple statistics, regression analysis, or multiple year analysis.
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NAHDAP: It acquires, preserves, and disseminates data relevant to drug addiction and HIV research
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Zenodo: A free and open platform for preserving and sharing research output
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ICPSR: it is research science data and resources on topics like social media, politics, economics, social sciences, government, GIS, & more.
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kaggle: Kaggle allows users to find datasets they want to use in building AI models, publish datasets, work with other data scientists and machine learning engineers, and enter competitions to solve data science challenges.
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US Census Data: A new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau. For guidance on using data.census.gov, please see their Resources page: Guidance for Data Use linked through the icon.
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Data.gov: Primarily a federal open government data site.
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DOE Data Explorer: This is a search tool to find Department of Energy funded research, its publication and publicly available scientific datasets of those projects.
Save The Date
Save the date! The next Love Data Week is February 12-16, 2024.
The 2024 theme is "My Kind of Data."
Join International Love Data Week February 12-16, 2024, to learn about data equity and inclusion, disciplinary communities, and creating a kinder world through data.
#LoveData24