Love Data Week 2026
#TERPSLOVEDATA
Love Data Week 2026 at UMD
International Love Data Week is a celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine's day. Inspired to share our own love of data, UMD began our own celebration of all things data starting in 2023. This annual event seeks to celebrate data, inform our campus data culture, strengthen our shared data literacy, and promote data privacy and stewardship.
The theme for 2026 is "Where's the data?" With data all around us, we encourage you to use Love Data Week 2026 to think about from where and how we get data, where we keep them, and how we keep them safe.
The Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment (IRPA), the Division of Information Technology (DIT), the College of Information, the STAMP, the University Career Center, and the University Libraries coordinate a series of data-related activities and events throughout the week to celebrate the use of data on campus.
Click to see details of Love Data Week Events at UMD
Click to learn more about the BTAA Data Viz Championship
Click to learn more about the Sharon A. La Voy Data Impact Award
Bring glory to UMD!
Submit your data viz before
11:59PM on January 16, 2026
for a chance to represent UMD in the BTAA Data Viz Championship!
LOVE DATA WEEK 2025 RECAP
LDW25 marked the third year of Love Data Week celebrations at UMD! The theme for 2025 was "Whose Data Is It, Anyway?" The UMD community was encouraged to use Love Data Week 2025 to think about data, where they come from, who owns them, and how to use them responsibly.
METRICS
BY THE NUMBERS
We couldn't help but share some of our own data! The numbers are clear, the data community at UMD is buzzing and growing stronger every year!
Love Data Week has become a must-attend event, bringing together data fans from all over campus. It's a fantastic opportunity to showcase the amazing data projects happening here and spark new ideas and collaborations. As our data community grows, it's clear that UMD is all about using data to make a real impact.
THEMES
DATA ARE THE HEART
From data privacy and AI to surveys and visualizations, our Love Data Week themes keep expanding, but data are always at the heart of the conversation. See what we covered in 2025.
Have an idea for something you'd like to see in a future Love Data Week session?
DATA ASSISTANCE
Need help with campus data?
We are here to help! Contact us at irpa@umd.edu or 301-405-5590. We provide support in using the kinds of data you see on reports.umd.edu, but we also partner with people across the campus on a variety of projects.
