Love Data Week 2025

Figure 1: Submission by Penn State’s Jonathan Petersen for the 2024 Data Viz Championship

Penn State joins institutions around the globe for International Love Data Week, February 10-14, 2025. Most of Penn State’s activities occur in conjunction with the Big Ten Academic Alliance. Here is the Penn Stte Newswire announcement about Penn State’s participation.

An activity of particular interest to open Big Ten scholars is the data visualization (data viz) championship. The competition has separate categories for students (grad or undergrad) and faculty/staff. See the 2024 winners here. As the Newswire article observes, Distinugished Professor of Earth Sciences, Laura Guertin from Penn State Brandywine won the BTAA Data Viz Champion title in 2024, see Figure 2.

Figure 2: “Blue Skies and Cloud Cover” by Laura Guertin

Data visualization submissions for the 2025 competition are due January 17.

Details about the 2025 Love Data Week schedule at Penn State are forthcoming. Here is the schedule from 2024.

So, mark your calendars and consider giving the data viz championship a go.