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NYU Love Data Week

Home to NYU Data Services' annual celebration of data-related teaching, learning, and research

Welcome to Love Data Week 2024!

NYU Data Services Love Data Week banner with white background and light colored dots around the edges of the frame.

Join NYU's Data Services in celebrating LOVE DATA WEEK 2024! 

This year, Love Data Week (LDW) runs from February 12 to 16. The goal is to celebrate data, foster data driven community by raising global awareness about all things data; and promote the importance of data driven research, decision making and data management. 

You are invited to our month-long February series of events, data-related classes, viz competition, data-career panel, lightning talks and more...a collective celebration of Love Data Week 2024. 

See the full schedule below and explore this site for more details as well as for information on our past events.

About Love Data Week

Every year, the week around Valentine’s Day is celebrated as the International Love Data Week 2024 and is hosted by ICPSR. Organizations involved in the stewardship, use, and reuse of data collectively spotlight the importance of caring for the data used in our research, policy planning, and scholarly pursuit.

The theme of this year is "My Kind of Data."  

Data is personal. 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.

Content related to Love Data Week can be found on various social media platforms at the hashtag #LoveData24.

At Data Services, we will be offering a full slate of our instructional sessions designed to train all researchers, whether beginner, intermediate, or advanced learners in the tools they need to conduct their work. We will also be offering an alumni career panel, research presentations, and other events aimed at sharing the work we do with data.

Be sure to checkout other Love Data Week events happening around campus, including Love Data Week 2024 at the NYU Law Library

LDW 2024 Data Visualization Competition Winners

Best Static Data Visualization

Evolution of LEGO over the last 50 years by Khushboo Mundada

“LEGO kits being every child's favorite toy, this dashboard is about LEGO's emergence in various categories, themes and pricing in last 50 years.” Data came from Maven LEGO data analytics challenge. Jump to long-format description Evolution of LEGO visualization.

Screenshot of the Evolution of LEGO over the last 50 years dashboard with LEGO figures in the background. The dashboard includes slider from 1970-2022, dropdowns for Category, Theme, Theme Group, and Age Range. There are highlights such as 5 Categories, Average Price - $41, 3M Pieces, 132 Themes, 32 MiniFigures, and $509K revenue generated in 50 years. There is a bar chart with the Top 5 Themes by number of pieces, another for Price by Theme Group, a scatterplot for LEGO sets by Pieces and US retail price. There is a box that shows a thumbnail of a set, provides a URL and US Retail Price. And a graph shows the number of themes and subthemes between 1970-2020.

 

Long-format description of Evolution of LEGO visualization:

The Evolution of LEGO over the last 50 years dashboard includes a slider from 1970-2022, drop-downs for Category, Theme, Theme Group, and Age Range. There are highlights such as 5 Categories, Average Price - $41, 3M Pieces, 132 Themes, 32 MiniFigures, and $509K revenue generated in 50 years. There is a bar chart with the Top 5 Themes by number of pieces, another for Price by Theme Group, a scatterplot for LEGO sets by Pieces and US retail price. There is a box that shows a thumbnail of a set, provides a URL and US Retail Price. And a graph shows the number of themes and sub-themes between 1970-2020.

 

Best Dynamic Data Visualization

King County House Sales by Anjali Kothawade (on Tableau)

“This interactive dashboard allows users to click on a parameter, enabling them to view dynamic data on house prices, sales, and a geographic map specific to the chosen date, month, and year.” Jump to long-format description of the King County House Sales visualization.

Screenshot of the tableau dashboard. Full image description provided in webpage text.

Long-format description of King County House Sales visualization:

Screenshot of the King County, Washington House Sales Tableau dashboard by Anjali Kothawade containins: a dynamic calendar that shows a month view which you can adjust and every day is a different shade referring to the sliders that allow you to select the year built, square footage of the lot, and square footage of livable space; for the month selected in the calendar, there is line graph of the daily average house sales price for the month selected in the dynamic calendar, a bar chart of the distribution of house prices, a bar chart for the distribution of bedrooms, a bar chart for the distribution of bathrooms, a map of the area, and a view (no view, fair, average, good, excellent) versus condition (badly worn, average, good, very good) “heatmap” data table.

Judges Favorite

The Sleep Blankets by Seung Lee

"My kids' sleep patterns from birth to their first birthday knitted into a blanket. Each row represents a single day. Each stitch represents 6 minutes of time spent awake or asleep. The data was logged painstakingly by my wife and me over my kids' first year using a tracking app." Jump to long-format description of the Sleep Blankets visualization.

Photo of two Sleep Blankets by Seung Lee laid flat. The left side is white and blue thread; the right side is white and purple thread. They show different patterns, but generally there is more scattered white thread at the top indicating more sleep in short, frequent bursts, but an overall erratic frequency and lower on the blankets, they white stitches stabilize in three columns near the center.

Long-format description of The Sleep Blankets by Seung Lee visualization:

Photo of two Sleep Blankets by Seung Lee laid flat. The left side is white and blue thread; the right side is white and purple thread. They show different patterns, but generally there is more scattered white thread at the top indicating more sleep in short, frequent bursts, but an overall erratic frequency and lower on the blankets, they white stitches stabilize in three columns near the center.

Prizes

Each winner will receive 2nd Generation Apple Airpods with Case.

In addition, winning entries will be featured on the Data Services webpage and/or 5th floor of Bobst Library.

Congratulations!