Love Data Week 2026

Join Harvard Library as we celebrate International Love Data Week starting February 9.

International Love Data Week brings people and organizations together to highlight the power of data and raise awareness about the importance of research data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. 

Celebrated every February around Valentine’s Day, this year’s Love Data Week theme, “Where’s the Data?”, invites everyone to think about how data moves from collection to storage and preservation. 

With a goal of helping everyone find the tools and support they need to make sure their data is well-tended throughout the entire research lifecycle, Harvard Library will host workshops, share resources, and promote good research data practices throughout this week-long event, from February 9 through February 13. 

Whether you are elbows deep in data, or just dipping your toes in, we hope you will join us.
 

Love Data Week Events

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Dataverse Reloaded: Improving Data Sharing Through Design

Monday, February 9
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Online

Join us for to learn more about how Dataverse, Harvard's free data repository, is being modernized into a faster, more responsive web application with new tools for the community.

Register for Dataverse Reloaded
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From Text to 3D: Word Clouds for Exploration

Monday, February 9
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Online

Exploring large document collections is hard. Join us to learn about Longhand, an experimental visualization pipeline that uses (text-to-3D) AI to transform a plain-text corpus into a navigable "object cloud."

Register for From Text to 3D
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Finding GIS Data for Your Project

Tuesday, February 10
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Countway Library

This workshop covers approaches to searching for geospatial data, including understanding spatial data formats, considerations for spatial data collection, and approaches to mapping where data is limited.

Register for Finding GIS Data
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Explore the Harvard Geospatial Library

Wednesday, February 11
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Online

Learn about the fascinating world of the Harvard Geospatial Library (HGL) — a hub for geospatial data and research, teaching, and learning at Harvard. This session will cover how students and faculty can use HGL to support their academic pursuits, HGL features you may not know about, and more.

Register for Explore HGL
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Community Data Preservation: A Climate & Health Datathon

Wednesday, February 11
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Countway Library or Online

Join Countway librarians, members of the Public Environmental Data Partners, and fellow data enthusiasts to capture and preserve our public health care data in the CAFE Harvard Dataverse Collection.

Register for Climate & Health Datathon
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Love Data Rodeo: A Roundup of Useful Ways to Wrangle Your Data

Thursday, February 12
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Lamont Library

Join us for a round-up of platforms, tools, and strategies to help you successfully work with your data. Meet representatives of Harvard approved platforms and learn about the support they offer to help you make the most of your research data.

Register for Love Data Rodeo

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Resources

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Love Data Week at Harvard Library is hosted and organized by the Open Scholarship and Research Data Services team. 

If you have questions or need support you can contact us hl_osrds@harvard.edu.

Learn More About Research Data Services from Harvard Library Check out Love Data Week presentations and materials from past years