Love Data Week at UW—Madison
Love Data Week, held annually during Valentine’s week, is an international celebration of data that invites institutions and individuals to explore how data shapes our world. The Office of Data, Academic Planning & Institutional Research (DAPIR) and the UW-Madison Libraries proudly sponsor UW–Madison’s Love Data Week, which includes a partnership with Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA).
Bucky’s 2027 Data Viz Challenge is now accepting entries!
Are you a data storyteller excited to show the campus community what you can do? Are you a student looking for a fun way to highlight your data viz skills? Are you a researcher using an innovative design to communicate your research?
Students create an original visualization from a provided data set. This year’s student data set features women’s NCAA basketball. Faculty, staff, and postdocs can submit an existing visualization or design a new one. New and creative ways of visualizing data are encouraged!
Learn more about Bucky’s Data Viz Challenge
3 quick tips that take 3 minutes each on how to organize and protect your data
Bring a sense of order to your Google Drive, Box, or SharePoint storage.
Take 3 minutes to organize your top-level and save time later on when you can easily find materials and the correct version!
Create a README file (example) for your most important data set, in plain text (.txt) or markdown (.md) format.
Do you know how to apply privacy principles at work?
While Wisconsin doesn’t have a comprehensive state privacy law, data privacy is still vital to our institution, employees, and students. Here are 7 generally accepted privacy principles.
More ways to grow your passion for data
Handle with care! Tips for managing your research data to prevent data loss, collaborate better, and meet the requirements of funders and publishers.
Secure data management starts with you! Discover 5 ways to make sure you are using protected institutional data responsibly.
Understanding UW–Madison through data: 4 resources you should know. UW-Madison’s institutional data informs strategic, academic, and budgetary planning decisions. These four institutional data resources can get you started.
Data@UW – Data Governance and Responsible Use, a 30-minute, self-paced employee module, helps you understand your responsibilities to protect the institutional data that employees collect and use daily.
Want to learn more about protecting student data? The Office of the Registrar, responsible for student data, is a central campus resource for FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and offers two ways to access FERPA training.
Students, take a minute to learn more about how your personal data is used at UW–Madison. The Office of the Registrar is a central campus resource for student record information and offers a number of ways that you can understand, control, and update your personal data.
Find out about a Data Classification Initiative rolling out in 2026 in an effort to strengthen compliance and lower security risk across the university.
