Save the date! February 10-14, 2025 marks Love Data Week, an international celebration of data held each year during the week of Valentine’s Day. Universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and individuals are encouraged to participate.
The 2025 theme is
Whose Data Is It, Anyway?
Many groups generate and collect data--researchers, the government, companies, organizations--and may share it with others. This year's Love Data Week theme invites to us to think about who owns the data, how to judge its quality, and how to use and share it responsibly.
Show Off Your Data Viz Skills in the 2025 Love Data Week Competition!
The University of Iowa is participating in the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Data Viz Championship to celebrate International Love Data Week!
The University of Iowa is hosting an internal competition that is open to students, faculty, and staff. All entries will be judged, and the top visualization for each group (faculty, staff, students) will be submitted to the BTAA to compete against other big ten schools.
Requirements For Students:
The challenge is to use the U.S. National Park Visit Data (1979-2023), to devise a data visualization to address the question(s) of your choice.
- The U.S. National Park Visit Data (1979-2023) must be used, but additional data can also be used to supplement should students opt to do so
- Visualizations must be accessible via a link that requires no login at the time of the Challenge voting and judging
- Some sample research questions below, but you don’t have to be limited by them
- Students can collaborate together, and all contributors must be credited; one person should be identified as the primary presenter
- Have fun and be creative!
Potential research questions:
- What are the most popular parks to visit, over time?
- What is the average number of visits by National Park, or by State?
- Which National Park has the most and least average visits? What patterns or surprises do you notice?
Requirements For Faculty and Staff:
Submit a visualization using the theme of the Big Ten (i.e., athletics, enrollment data, etc.). You can also submit an existing visualization used at your institution. Visualizations can pertain to the institution as a whole or to a specific initiative or population. Submissions should follow institutional data policies. If you are looking for some interesting data sets, you can find some here.
- All submissions must follow institutional data policies and guidelines
- Visualizations must be accessible via a link that requires no login at the time of the Challenge voting
- Faculty and staff can collaborate together, and all contributors must be credited; one person should be identified as the primary presenter
How to Submit Visualizations
Please submit your Data Viz entries here. The deadline to submit visualizations is January 17, 2025.