Love Data Week’s theme this year focuses on data as an agent of change, specifically bringing attention to how a community might use data to bring about meaningful change to policy or society. Data activism is a specific type of social activism that aims to make affirmative use of data and technology for advocacy and…
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Love Data Week!
Welcome to Love Data Week! Be sure to check out the Love Data Week Guide for resources, activities and challenges. We’ll also be sharing a few Engage posts on issues surrounding the theme of data as an agent of change. Today’s post looks at the relationship between data literacy and data justice. Data literacy is…
Get Ready for International Love Data Week!
Next week, February 13 – 17, Connecticut College will participate in International Love Data Week. Love Data Week is a global celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine’s Day. Universities and colleges, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations and individuals are encouraged to host and participate in data-related events and activities. …
Open Access Week Day 2: Open Data
Today we’ll focus on open data as part of our series on International Open Access Week. What is open data? SPARC defines open data as “research data that is freely available on the internet permitting any user to download, copy, analyze, re-process, pass to software or use for any purpose without financial, legal, or technological…
