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Feb. 14: Explore data through craft at data week celebration

February 07, 2025

Author: Erin Ridnour and Megan O'Donnell

Love Data Week Feb. 10-14, 2025

This Valentine’s Day, explore data in a new way at the Library’s Love Data Week Celebration. Join us for data crafts and delicious treats. 

  • When: Friday, Feb 14, Noon - 2 p.m. 
  • Where: The Catalyst, Parks Library, room 199 

Learn how to turn data into fun, personalized bracelets through our hands-on data physicalizationcraft.All materials and instructions will be provided. You can also warm up with a cup from our hot chocolate bar, decorate a Valentine sugar cookie, and learn about the data support services available in the Catalyst.  

Calling Student Data Wizards! Enter the Second Annual Data Viz Contest 

  • Contest Opening: February 14 
  • Submissions Deadline: March 14 at midnight 

We challenge you to impress our judges with your skills and creativity! 

Data visualization is the translation of data into a visual medium such as a map, chart, infographic, 3D-model, or even art. It's also a fun, creative, and effective way to communicate complex ideas through shape, color, size, intensity, and more. Captivate us with your visuals, tell a compelling story, tackle real-world problems, build skills, and have fun.Judges look for creativity, clarity, and visual interest when judging entries. 

Open to all students, the contest offers three cash prizes distributed as Visa gift cards: $150 (first place), $75 (second place), $50 (third place). 

Get information about our other Love Data Week events and entry information for the Data Viz Contest on  our  event website. 

Create a data bracelet that displays daily temperatures represented by colored beads.

Make a bracelet and tell a story by depicting data points using varying amounts and colors of string.

Finished bracelets that tell a story by depicting data points using varying amounts and colors of string.

Digital scholarship team members create bracelets that depict data points with beads and string.

Make a bracelet that gives recipe instructions using colored beads and varied lengths and colors of string.