Join the international celebration of data
Learn about data with UM Libraries this Love Data Week, February 9-13, 2026.
Love Data Week is an international celebration of data hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
The Libraries is offering workshops and presentations on data deposits, data visualization, GIS, research data preservation and more.
Tuesday, February 10
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
NJM Library, Paterson Lab
Join GIS & Research Visualization Librarian Meg Miller for #LoveDataWeek to ask questions about library data services and help shape future labs. Drop in anytime for hands-on help with your visualization, to discuss your research projects, or to explore new approaches in a relaxed, come-and-go format.
Tuesday, February 10
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Online
Learn how data deposits can be set up in UM Dataverse.
Wednesday, February 11
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Online
An overview of GIS and how it can be used in research.
Thursday, February 12
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Online
Learn best practices for adding contextual description to a data deposit, for UM Dataverse and elsewhere.
Friday, February 13
11:00 a.m.
Online panel
This Love Data Week panel brings together speakers from across Canada, including Natalie Vielfaure, the Digital Curation Archivist at UM Libraries, to share case studies and practical examples of how institutions are approaching research data preservation.
Friday, February 13
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Dafoe Library, Gold Lab
Join GIS & Research Visualization Librarian Meg Miller for #LoveDataWeek to ask questions about library data services and help shape future labs. Drop in anytime for hands-on help with your visualization, to discuss your research projects, or to explore new approaches in a relaxed, come-and-go format.
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