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Love Data Week 2024

Online Resources

Adopt a Dataset on the Love Data Week site here.

The Programming Historian publishes novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching.

Data Fun and Games

*This section taken directly from SMU Love Data Week libguide

Choose Your Own (Research Data Management) Adventure! 
Designed and written by University of Bath and Stellenbosch University

  • You are in charge of your research journey! See where your choices lead, follow the unfolding plot, and learn about data management along the way!

Data Management: The Game (courtesy Margaret Janz, Science & Engineering Librarian, Temple University)

  • Well, two games actually: What's in a Name? (Who knew file names matter?!) OR Storage Wars (How safe is your data?) x

Dilemma Game (Erasmus University Rotterdam Taskforce - Scientific Integrity) 

  • An award-winning research integrity game that poses challenging scenarios and players decide the best option for the ethical research dilemma. Available as an app and a card game.

Data Horror (Virtual) Escape Room  

  • Created by a collaborative team from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Leiden University and the Eindhoven University of Technology. Originally launched during Data Horror Week in the Netherlands.
LEGO® Metadata for Reproducibility game pack
  • This is a set of resources for the LEGO® Metadata for Reproducibility game. The LEGO® Metadata for Reproducibility game is an interactive game for 4-24 players, using LEGO® to help researchers explore the metadata they might need to record to aid reproducibility. The game addresses issues including planning for metadata, formats of metadata recording, standards and automation. The game also draws multiple parallels between recording and communicating the research process and documenting and the creation of a LEGO® model. The process of playing the game draws researchers into discussions on how metadata is captured, recorded and disseminated, which in turn provides an opportunity for signposting to further resources in this area.

The Art of Data

Art Made of Data (TED.com video playlist)

  • Seeing patterns and creating beauty -- data visualization has become an art form. Meet pioneering artists who use spreadsheets, archives and digital data as their paints and canvas.

The Wind's Invisible Poetry Flows Through These Digital Paintings

  • See what you can only feel and hear: Wind of Boston ‘paintings’

 

How Knitting Enthusiasts Are Using Their Craft to Visualize Climate Change

Read more about the project here.

Social Media

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