Love Data Week 2026
Love Data Week was February 9-13, 2026, and celebrated the theme “Where’s the Data?” The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at University of Michigan states that Love Data Week is "an international celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine’s day....This year’s Love Data Week theme is 'Where’s the Data' – a way to get people thinking about data’s journey from collection through storage and preservation. The theme opens up exciting possibilities for interactive programming, whether that’s hosting data-themed games, building data literacy skills, or diving into the ethics of responsible data use.
This year, our colleagues at Deep Blue Repositories published a series of blog posts featuring interviews with U-M scholars who publicly shared their data and addressed the question at the heart of this year’s theme. In case you missed it, here is a roundup of those posts.
- Studying Tropical Dry Forests: An Interview with Dr. Maria Natalia Umana
- Reducing Methane Emissions from Oil Flares: Interview with Dr. Jenna Stolzman
- Quantifying Skeletal Muscle Mass: Interview with Brian Derstine
- Evaluating Wheelchair use in Automated Vehicles and Aircraft: An Interview with Dr. Kathy Klinich
- HathiTrust Celebrates Love Data Week: Collections as Data
