Love Data Week 2025 hosted by Maynooth University Library.
Love Data week 2025 will take place from the 10th - 14th of February. The theme for 2025 is Whose Data Is This Anyway?
Maynooth University Library
2024
Love Data Week 2024 hosted by Maynooth University Library.
Love Data week 2024 will take place from the 12th - 16th of February. The theme for 2024 is My Kind of Data.
Programme -
Daily
My Kind of Data - Statistics from MU Library
Poster Exhibition
Location: Foyer, John Paul II Library and Online HERE
‘Saint Patrick’s College Maynooth Matriculation and Ordination Records: the challenges of interpreting imperfect student data’
Online Exhibition
For Love Data Week 2024, the Clericus project examines student data from SPCM covering the period 1795-2000. Presented in the form of a line graph, at first glance the data suggests very noticeable trends across and between yearly matriculation and ordination numbers. However, when these are examined in greater detail, it becomes clear that the aforementioned trends can be misleading and require more nuanced analysis in order to make sense. The Sway poster presentation submitted by the Clericus team disentangles these trends and highlights the issues encountered when dealing with incomplete student records.
View the exhibition HERE.
Events and Webinars
Monday 12 February 10 - 11am (In person)
Live 3D Printing Demonstration
Dr. Heidi Campbell, Digital Engagement Curator, Maynooth University.
Join us in the foyer of the John Paul II library to experience some live 3D printing. See how a 3D printer works and get a free trinket (while stocks last).
Location: Foyer, John Paul II Library
No booking required.
Tuesday 13 February 12:00 - 12:30pm (Online)
Managing and Sharing your Qualitative Data
Fran Callaghan
This session will focus on practical tools and techniques for managing and sharing your research data, with a particular emphasis on qualitative data sets. Topics include data management planning tools, anonymisation options, and selecting a suitable long term archive in which to share your data. The session will then introduce the Irish Qualitative Data Archive as one possible archive.
View the recording HERE
Tuesday 13 February 2:30 - 3pm (Online)
Urban Sense
Stephanie Keogh and the Terrain-AI team based in the National Centre for Geocomputation
The Urban sense project is one of several initiatives being developed by Terrain-AI*, a large-scale research project focused on understanding emissions of greenhouse gases across terrestrial environments, led by MU Professors Tim McCarthy and Rowan Fealy. As part of this project 20 greenhouse gas sensors have been deployed across both residential and commercial areas in Dublin. The sensors, which measure greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, as well as air quality parameters and weather variables, will provide a real-time visual pulse of the city, reflecting differences in land use, seasonal cycle in vegetation growth, weather events and even hourly patterns of traffic moving in and around the city streets. Our event will showcase the Urban Sense platform and allow attendees to explore the temporal and spatial patterns of GHGs under different weather events and human activity across the Greater Dublin Area. For more information about the project please see here.
*Terrain-AI is funded under the Strategic Partnership Programme by Science Foundation Ireland and Microsoft under Grant number SFI 20/SPP/3705.
View the recording HERE.
Wednesday 14 February 10:30 - 11am (Online)
Help - My Survey is Full of Bots!
Dermot Lynott
Can you trust your own survey data? How can you tell if the responses are genuine or not? In this webinar I’ll talk about recent experiences of conducting online surveys, that were very quickly flooded with automated, bot responses. I highlight the different ways that we identified these bots, and provide some suggestions for how researchers can reduce the influence of bots, and ensure they are getting good quality data from their surveys.
View the recording HERE
Wednesday 14 February 11:30 - 12noon (Online)
The Data behind the Rankings: Looking at the Data of Scopus & SciVal
Ciarán Quinn
This brief talk will look at the Bibliometric Data (documents & publications) contained in the Scopus Dataset and how its used in the rankings. Rankers use these datasets to examine numbers of citations for publications, number of publications produced, number of publications in the top 10% of journals, current research collaboration profiles and researchers institutional affiliation. Currently Research quality accounts for 30% (citation impact (15%), research strength (5%), research excellence(5%) and research influence (10%)) in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings so they are a significant part of the rankings. Scopus data has been used by the THE since 2014. We will also look at what you can do to improve your profile which will in turn feed into MU's Institutional Profile.
View the recording HERE
Wednesday 14 February 2 - 2:30pm (Online)
Data Gathering and LibInsight Usage by Maynooth University Library Staff
Marie G. Cullen
This presentation will discuss the findings of a survey distributed to Maynooth University Library staff. The survey collected information on the platforms from which Library staff gather data. It gathered information on the tools used to manage, access, analyse and display data, in particular the use of a tool called LibInsight.
View the recording HERE
Thursday 15 February 2:30 - 3:30pm (In person)
Live 3D Printing Demonstration
Dr. Heidi Campbell, Digital Engagement Curator, Maynooth University.
Join us in the foyer of the John Paul II library to experience some live 3D printing. See how a 3D printer works and get a free trinket (while stocks last).
Location: Foyer, John Paul II Library
No booking required.
2023
Love Data Week 2023 hosted by Maynooth University Library. Love Data week 2023 will take place from the 13th - 17th of February. The theme for 2023 is Data: Agent of Change.Programme - (Full digital programme available here)
Online Exhibitions
Daily
Fundamentals of rare books cataloguing
Yvette Campbell, Collections and Content Librarian, Maynooth University.
Yvette works on cataloguing the historical collections of St. Patrick’s Pontifical University (SPPU) held in the Russell Library as part of a major ongoing project to enhance discovery of its’ significant collections. In this resource, you will learn about the key concepts and formulae for the cataloguing of special collections materials, in particular rare books. This presentation is intended to simplify what is often considered a complex task of detective work and controlled data entry by equipping our audience with a basic tool for understanding the fundamentals of rare books cataloguing - including format and collation, the recording of copy-specific information, controlled vocabularies and why these elements and more are important for enhancing research
Events and Webinars
Monday 13 February 11 - 12noon (Online)
AI-written student essays and how to detect them
Dr Brandt Dainow
This presentation will discuss the issues arising from new the artificial intelligence systems, such as ChatGPT, currently getting much press. These are causing concern in universities around the world because they are capable of writing undergraduate-level essays which, at first glance, appear to be indistinguishable from a genuine student essay. For example, Australian universities are reported to be moving to assessment only by pen-and-paper exams (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/10/universities-to-return-to-pen-and-paper-exams-after-students-caught-using-ai-to-write-essays).
However, as with many things, much of this concern is just media hysteria. AI-written essays are detectable as such.
This presentation will explain how ChatGPT (and similar systems) really work (they are not intelligent and don't "know" anything), demonstrate use of ChatGPT's essay writing, dispel hype in favour of reality, and show how to detect whether an essay has been written by an AI, even if it has been substantially reworded by the student afterwards.
This presentation does not assume any experience with AI, computer programming, maths or any other background. It is intended to provide attendees with a down-to-earth understanding of AI writing and provide a practical tool for detecting it. A support webpage will be provided containing more in-depth resources, including papers for those who want to explore this issue further and links to an online AI essay detection tool.
View the recording Here
Monday 13 February 2 - 2:30pm (Online)
Introduction and Overview of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive
Fran Callaghan
View the recording Here
Tuesday 14 February 10 - 11am (In person)
Live 3D Printing Demonstration
Dr. Heidi Campbell, Digital Engagement Curator, Maynooth University.
Join us in the foyer of the John Paul II library to experience some live 3D printing. See how a 3D printer works and get a free trinket (while stocks last).
Location: Foyer, John Paul II Library
No booking required.
Tuesday 14 February 10 - 11am (In person)
Live Short Story Dispenser Demonstration
Elaine Bean
Join us in the foyer of the John Paul II library to experience a live demonstration of the Short Story Dispenser. With data and love as a theme for Valentine's Day what poem/ short story will you get?
Location: Foyer, John Paul II Library
No booking required.
Tuesday 14 February 2:00 - 2:30pm (In person)
Parish records of St Germain-en-Laye, 1689-1740: Agents of change for understanding Irish Jacobite émigrés.
Jennifer Brady, first year PhD student, History Department, Maynooth University.
The mining of the parish records of St Germain-en-Laye, Paris, 1689-1740, allowed for the harnessing of information relating to Irish Jacobite émigrés who followed King James II to St Germain-en-Laye, Paris, following his exile in December 1688. The Stuart court would remain in St Germain until 1719 when it then moved to Italy. There were previous accounts of this population recorded by C.E. Lart, in 1912, but the records only date up to 1720, therefore, this is the first time that this information has been recorded up to 1740. This is significant as it broadens our understanding of this migrant population and highlights that contrary to any idea that the entire Stuart court moved to Italy, there was still a significant number of Irish remaining in St Germain-en-Laye afterwards. This allows for the questioning of why they remained there and actually continued to emigrate to St Germain. In the absence of census and parish records for this period in Ireland, these records offer an excellent data and source substitution.
This presentation will explain how the information was gathered and the reason for certain decisions taken in the recording of the information, what the records revealed, and why this information is invaluable for social and military history.
Location: Training Room A, John Paul II Library.
No booking required, limited to 22 people, first come first served basis.
Wednesday 15 February 11 - 11:30am (Online)
Tracking the Impact of your Research Data: The Tools available
Ciarán Quinn, Research Support Librarian, Maynooth University
As Research Data is increasingly made available via open access, it's important to be able to showcase the impact and value of that data as it is downloaded, viewed, reused, cited and shared by other researchers. There are two main types of data metrics: Data Citations and Altmetrics for Data. Data Citations involve citing the actual datasets or by citing a data paper that describes the dataset. They are an attempt to track data’s influence and reuse in scholarly literature. The main source of these measures is Data Citation Index in the Web of Science database.
Data Papers are cited like other papers and can be found in Scopus, and WOS. This session will look at how to identify and measure these data citations and demonstrate how to set up alerts to track further citations. It will also examine Altmetrics Attention Scores for Data which is be obtained from repositories and the Social Web, such as Twitter, Blogs, Public Policy Documents, Media, Multimedia, and Patents.
View the recording Here
Wednesday 15 February 2 - 2:30pm (Online)
Digitising a historical Map: a practical guide
Stavros Angelis, Senior Technical Officer Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth University
The presentation outlines the necessary steps to digitise a physical historical map. It contains a step by step practical guide with the use of QGIS as well as some example outputs.
View the recording Here
Wednesday 15 February 2:30 -3:00pm (Online)
Digitising Biographical Data: the Clericus and Ulster Settlers Projects
Prof Thomas O’Connor, Director of the Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth University
Dr Declan Monaghan, Maynooth University
The presentation outlines the origins of the Clericus digital project, follows its development over the past two years, and looks at its extension to include new populations such as early 17th century Ulster settlers.
View the recording Here
Thursday 16 February 10 - 11:30am (Online)
SFI Centre of Research students - (Please see digital programme for full details of these sessions HERE)
10 - 10:25am Greener Anomaly Detection (not recorded)
Nahia Martinez Iturricastillo, Aoife Flood, Maira Rubub - SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science, Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University
10:25 - 10:55am Analysis of Label-Free Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Data for Escherichia coli (E. coli)
Cormac Monaghan (SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science, Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University)
10:55 - 11:15am Learned Image Compression: A comparison between JPEG and Neural Network methods
Paddy Gorry (SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science, Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University)
View the recording Here
Thursday 16 February 1:30 - 2pm (Online)
Love Data & Coffee
Prof. Markus Helfert MU, Denise Manton MU, Daragh O’Brien Castlebridge
Join the debate around challenges, concerns and ways to safeguard the use and exploitation of Data. Aim of this interactive event is to discuss current topics and challenges around data governance, including privacy, ethical consideration and challenges to manage data. As recent advances of Artificial Intelligence and the discussion around the ChatGPT chatbot shows, there are many challenging issues open for debate. With this 30min discussion, we hope to provide input and stimulate the wider discussion on usage of data, its fair exploitation and ethical considerations.
Thursday 16 February 2 - 3pm (Online)
Hamilton Institute Students - (Please see digital programme for full details of these sessions HERE)
2 - 2:25pm
A Step Towards Automating Sensitive Data Flagging in the CSO
Conor Hackett (SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science, Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University)
2:25 - 2:45pm Bayesian Additive Regression Trees for Non-Ignorable Missing Data
Yong Chen Goh, Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University
Friday 17th February All Day (Online)
MU Library - Data For Change Infographic
This infographic illustrates data from various department in Maynooth University Library. The data collected by the Library demonstrates the breadth and scale of the work undertaken by the Library and provides evidence to support decision making by Library management.
You will find the infographic HERE
2022
Maynooth University Library hosted Love Data Week during the week of 14-18 February, 2022. The hashtag is #lovedata22. Similar to Open Access Week, the purpose of Love Data Week is to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, open data, citizen science and many others and to encourage sharing, preservation, and re-use of data. Love Data Week highlights the importance of data and the many uses and applications arising from it. This year the theme is Data For Everyone.
Maynooth University Library is marked this event with a series of talks and workshops by students and by data specialists from on and off campus all showcasing different aspects of the use and engagement with data across Maynooth University and elsewhere, especially open data. This year the event was fully online and talks have been recorded with presenter permission. The programme of events and all the recordings can be found HERE.
Love Data Week is a social media event coordinated by research data specialists, mostly but not exclusively working in academic and research libraries or data archives or centres. We believe research data are the foundation of the scholarly record and crucial for advancing our knowledge of the world around us.
2021
Love Data Week 2021 ran from 8 – 12 February.
The purpose of Love Data Week is to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, re-use and library-based research data services and to highlight the importance of data and the many uses and applications arising from it. This year the theme was Data: Building a Better Future.
Maynooth University Library marked this event with a series of talks and workshops by students and by data specialists from on and off campus all showcasing different aspects of the use and engagement with data across Maynooth University, especially open data. We also hosted talks from external guest speakers on data related themes. This year the event was fully online and talks were recorded with presenter permission.
Link to the Love Data Week programme and information on all talks can be found here. Recordings for each presentation are available on the links below:
Irish Sea Level Change in the Atlantic Context - Maeve Upton, Maynooth University - Link
Estimating Modern Contraceptive Use - Moving from Models to People - Hannah Comiskey, Maynooth University - Link
Estimating Abundance in Animal Communities - Niamh Mimnagh, Maynooth University - Link
Tell us what you're doing! : using library data to inform scholarly communications - Dr Leo Appleton - Editor-in-Chief New Review of Academic Librarianship and Senior University Teacher at the University of Sheffield's Information School - Link
Open Science & Research Data Management: An Overview - Ciarán Quinn, Research Support Librarian, MU Library
Ireland’s Open Data Initiative – making data accessible and available for reuse - Rhoda Kerins, Head of Open Data Unit, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform - Link
What does open research mean? An introductory guide - Peter Mooney, Maynooth University - Link
The following poster presentations can be viewed here
Visualizing Importance and Interaction effects using the R-package vivid - Alan Inglis, Maynooth University
Mapping our collections: where do our rare books come from? - Hugh Murphy, Maynooth University Library
2020
Maynooth University Library will be hosting Love Data Week during the week of 10-14 February, 2020. The hashtag is #lovedata20. Similar to Open Access Week, the purpose of Love Data Week is to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, re-use and library-based research data services and to highlight the importance of data and the many uses and applications arising from it.
This year, according to the Love Data Week website the event will focus on working with students to help them get to know the data specialists at their institution, the kinds of work they do, and the data and associated issues that these data specialists engage with. A number of talks, exhibitions and information stands will be held during the week all showcasing different aspects of the use and engagement with data across Maynooth University, especially open data.
You can view the programme and all the recordings HERE.
2019
Similar to Open Access Week, the purpose of the Love Data Week (LDW) event is to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services. We will share practical tips, resources, and stories to help researchers at any stage in their career use good data practices. The general theme of LDW in 2019 is 'Data in Everyday Life'.
Love Data Week is a social media event coordinated by research data specialists, mostly working in academic and research libraries or data archives or centres. We believe research data are the foundation of the scholarly record and crucial for advancing our knowledge of the world around us. If you care about data, please join us!
Maynooth University Library is marking this event for the second time with a series of talks and workshops by data specialists from on and off campus as well as information stands for the Government's national Open Data Portal and MURAL (Maynooth University Research Archive Library)our rebranded institutional repository. There will also be a Building City Dashboards VR demo.
You can view the programme HERE.
2018
Similar to Open Access Week, the purpose of the Love Data Week (LDW) event is to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services. We will share practical tips, resources, and stories to help researchers at any stage in their career use good data practices.
Love Data Week is a social media event coordinated by research data specialists, mostly working in academic and research libraries or data archives or centres. We believe research data are the foundation of the scholarly record and crucial for advancing our knowledge of the world around us. If you care about research data, please join us!
Maynooth University Library is delighted to be marking this event for the first time with a series of talks by data specialists from on and off campus as well as exhibition stands on the 14th February for the Government's national Open Data Portal and the Building City Dashboards project.
You can view the programme HERE.
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