Love Data Week

Kick-off Event Information

Calling all students, faculty, and staff at Big Ten Academic Alliance institutions! Showcase your data visualization skills and compete for the prestigious Big Ten Data Viz Championship Title. Join us for an informative webinar that will guide you through the essentials of preparing data, creating visualizations, and publishing on Tableau.

Webinar Details:

• Date: Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
• Time: 1:00pm CT / 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Platform: Zoom (Registration required)
• Presenter: Ryan Caldwell, Senior Associate Director, Data Management & Decision Support Analytics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Cookies, Coding, and Conversation

Details TBA.

• Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025
• Time: 12:00pm - 3:00pm
• Registration required. Please contact Susan Richter at srichter@msu.edu for more information.

Big Ten Academic Alliance Data Viz Championship Rules

As part of Love Data Week the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) is hosting the second annual Data Viz Championship across all the institutions. The event is open to all MSU students and employees and is an opportunity to show case MSU’s data visualization abilities. Interim Provost Jeitschko will judge the MSU winner and the winner will receive a certificate from President Guskiewicz and two tickets to an MSU sporting event! The winning entry will then be provided to the BTAA for judging across the whole of the BTAA. 

Students

Your challenge is to use the U.S. National Park Visit Data (1979-2023) – Responsible Datasets in Context (responsible-datasets-in-context.com) to devise a data visualization to address the question(s) of your choice. You may supplement with additional publicly available data should you choose to do so. Have fun and be creative! Students must be actively enrolled at the institution for graduate or undergraduate coursework, thesis, or dissertation study.

Student Prizes:

• Signed certificate from President Guskiewicz
• Two ticket for Men's Hockey: MSU vs Penn State: Saturday, February 22, 2025, 6pm

Faculty/Staff

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.

Faculty/Staff Prizes:

• Signed certificate from President Guskiewicz
• Two ticket for Men's Basketball: MSU vs Purdue: Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 7pm

Resources: 

• Data Prompts
• Sample Prompts
• Tutorials
• Datasets

Submission to the Challenge

Each institution may submit one student visualization and one faculty/staff visualization to the Championship. Submissions should be sent via the institutional coordinators and must include an image for use in a thumbnail, a title, a short description, and a publicly available URL. This is a two-step process. First, submit your entry through this form. One student and one faculty/staff submission will be chosen to move onto to compete in the BTAA Data Viz Championship. Institution submissions are due January 17, 2025.

Please save the date for the Showcase. For more information, contact irdata@msu.edu.

Enter Here

1. Follow @‌lovedataweek on X and Instagram and spread the word about Love Data Week 2025.
2. Attend one (or more!) of the Love Data Week activities virtually from wherever you are. Check out the calendar of events.
3. Participate in ICPSR’s yearly Adopt a Dataset Program – learn about it and share how it could be an agent of change.
4. Recognize colleagues for their participation in Love Data Week activities and events with a Love Data Week-specific Certificate of Participation.
5. Use a cool Love Data Week background graphic as your Zoom background or screensaver.
6. Download, print, and share Love Data Week stickers with friends, students, and colleagues.
7. Have a data trivia contest with your team, office, staff, classroom, students, or family – and tell us what happened. (If you’re following us on social media, you’ll be able to see our daily trivia questions during Love Data Week.)

• For bragging rights! You will be the BTAA Data Viz Champ.
• It makes a great line on a resume!
• Chance to win signed certificate from President Guskiewicz
• Students: Two tickets for Men's Hockey: MSU vs Penn State
• Faculty and Staff: Two ticket for Men's Basketball: MSU vs Purdue

• Students can submit work that results from collaboration with another person, but both must be credited.
• Faculty and staff should credit all involved as authors of the work. 
• When collaborating, at least one person should be identified to present the work during the showcase. 

Any tool (or a combination of tools) may be used. This is not limited to Tableau or PowerBI.

• Student Requirements:
  • Students must use the U.S. National Park Visit Data (1979-2023)—Responsible Datasets in Context (responsible-datasets-in-context.com) at minimum. Students may supplement with additional publicly available data if they choose to do so.
  • Visualizations must be accessible via a link that requires no login during the Championship voting.  
• Faculty/Staff Requirements: 
  • The viz should be used for something related to the Big Ten (e.g., athletics, enrollment data, etc. ) or information about the institution—be it the institution as a whole or a specific initiative/population. 
  • All submissions must follow the schools’ institutional data policies and guidelines (i.e., please do not submit a viz with Social Security Numbers or HIPAA information).  
  • Visualizations must be accessible via a link that requires no login during the Championship voting.

Yes! We’d love for you to submit work, attend the Championship, and vote.

Each institution will set its own guidelines for determining a viz to showcase in the Championship. 

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