Subject & Research Guides: Statistics & Data: Love Data Week 2022

Welcome to Love Data Week 2022!

Love Data Week 2022: February 14-18!

This international celebration of all things "Data", is coordinated by the ICPSR. More than 120 events are sponsored by academic libraries and research centres, as well as on social media channels (hashtag #LoveData22). It's purpose is to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to library-based research data services, research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse.

The theme of this year is "Data is for everyone."

We want you to participate! Share your experiences, learn from others, and find out about library data resources

Join the Love Data conversation on Twitter using #LoveData22 and #SMULovesData
- Follow @SMUHfxLibrary for news and updates
- Share your DataLove, or DataLoss stories
Drop-in (virtually) to chat with Librarians about library data resources, or just to share your Data Love stories, at the (virtual) Libraries Love Data Meet 'n Greet, Friday, 18 February 2022 (RSVP here)
Read about it! Data is *everywhere*, impacting everyone,.It's being used and misused to shape our world in surprising ways. Who gets counted? Who gets counted out? Check out some of our favorite titles below, under the Data Books We Love Tab.
Browse Patrick Power Library data resources in our Guides:
- Statistics & Data Guide
- Research Data Management Guide
Tell us how your using data in your classes and in your research, so we can help everyone #LoveData just a little bit more!

Data Fun & Games

Because *sometimes* we just need to relax!

Choose Your Own (Research Data Management) Adventure! Designed and written by University of Bath and Stellenbosch University

You are in charge of your research journey! See where your choices lead, follow the unfolding plot, and learn about data management along the way!

Data Management: The Game (courtesy Margaret Janz, Science & Engineering Librarian, Temple University)

Well, two games actually: What's in a Name? (Who knew file names matter?!) OR Storage Wars (How safe is your data?) x

Dilemma Game (Erasmus University Rotterdam Taskforce - Scientific Integrity)

An award-winning research integrity game that poses challenging scenarios and players decide the best option for the ethical research dilemma. Available as an app and a card game.

Data Horror (Virtual) Escape Room

Created by a collaborative team from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Leiden University and the Eindhoven University of Technology. Originally launched during Data Horror Week in the Netherlands.

LEGO® Metadata for Reproducibility game pack

This is a set of resources for the LEGO® Metadata for Reproducibility game. The LEGO® Metadata for Reproducibility game is an interactive game for 4-24 players, using LEGO® to help researchers explore the metadata they might need to record to aid reproducibility. The game addresses issues including planning for metadata, formats of metadata recording, standards and automation. The game also draws multiple parallels between recording and communicating the research process and documenting and the creation of a LEGO® model. The process of playing the game draws researchers into discussions on how metadata is captured, recorded and disseminated, which in turn provides an opportunity for signposting to further resources in this area.

The Art of Data

Art Made of Data (TED.com video playlist)

Seeing patterns and creating beauty -- data visualization has become an art form. Meet pioneering artists who use spreadsheets, archives and digital data as their paints and canvas.

The Wind's Invisible Poetry Flows Through These Digital Paintings

See what you can only feel and hear: Wind of Boston ‘paintings’

How Knitting Enthusiasts Are Using Their Craft to Visualize Climate Change

Do you knit or crochet? Try knitting your own temperature data scarf, following this conceptual scarf pattern:
- My Year in Temperatures -Scarf-

The Tempestry Project

The Tempestry Project is personal and collaborative fiber art, environmental awareness, and climate activism via data representation all rolled into a sprawling community of friends, artists, crafters, teachers, scientists, activists, nature lovers, and more.

Doing Data Good in the World

Critical Distance connects audiences with nature—and each other

A new augmented reality (AR) experience—an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, brings a marine ecosystem to life, allowing audiences to connect with orcas in an entirely new way.

Patrick Power Librarians Loves Data Too! @smuhalifax Join librarians Joyce Thomson and Peter Webster online, Friday. February 18th at 2-3pm, to chat about library data services & resources. We'd love to know more about data you love, data you're using, and how we might work together to #LoveData22 ***RSVP here***

The Pandora Papers for Data Lovers: A Panel
Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:30pm In late 2021 the Pandora Papers investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) uncovered "offshore dealings of 35 current and former world leaders and more than 300 other current and former public officials and politicians around the world." (ICIJ 2021). Over 600 journalists from 150 news organizations worked on 2.94 terabytes of data from 14 offshore service providers to expose the secret owners of offshore companies, hidden bank accounts, luxury yachts and private jets, property, and priceless works of art. Join ICIJ data editor Emilia Díaz-Struck, ICIJ data reporters Agustin Armendariz and Delphine Reuter, and data journalist Helena Bengtsson as they discuss working on a project like the Pandora Papers. Hosted by our friends-in-data at McGill University Library, anyone in welcome to sign up to attend (No McGill affiliation required!). Spaces are limited, so register early
Compute Canada Federation Humanities and Social Sciences Series Winter 2022
This is an introductory digital research series for humanities and social sciences (HSS) researchers where we discuss advanced digital tools available through the Compute Canada Federation as well as research data management (RDM) support and best practices. Several sessions are hands-on workshops, providing the opportunity for digital skills development for novice and intermediate learners. You can attend as many or as few of the 10 sessions as you wish. The sessions are in English and French and you can ask questions in both languages.
Tue, Feb 22, 2022 12:00pm - Fri, Feb 25, 2022 5:00pm
Program descriptions available here.
The Programming Historian
Programming Historian began in 2008 as an open-access introduction to programming in Python, aimed at working historians (and other humanists) with little previous experience. In 2012 it launched as an open access peer reviewed scholarly journal of methodology for digital historians.
All tutorials are rigorously peer reviewed, guided through the review process by one of our editors. Lessons are published in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. See also their Blog for recent projects and ideas for applying these lessons to real world research.

Analytics Stories by Wayne L. Winston
ISBN: 9781119646068
Publication Date: 2020-08-31
Inform your own analyses by seeing how one of the best data analysts in the world approaches analytics problems Analytics Stories: How to Make Good Things Happen is a thoughtful, incisive, and entertaining exploration of the application of analytics to real-world problems and situations. Covering fields as diverse as sports, finance, politics, healthcare, and business, Analytics Stories bridges the gap between the oft inscrutable world of data analytics and the concrete problems it solves. Distinguished professor and author Wayne L. Winston answers questions like: Was Liverpool over Barcelona the greatest upset in sports history? Was Derek Jeter a great infielder What's wrong with the NFL QB rating? How did Madoff keep his fund going? Does a mutual fund's past performance predict future performance? What caused the Crash of 2008? Can we predict where crimes are likely to occur? Is the lot of the American worker improving? How can analytics save the US Republic? The birth of evidence-based medicine: How did James Lind know citrus fruits cured scurvy? How can I objectively compare hospitals? How can we predict heart attacks in real time? How does a retail store know if you're pregnant? How can I use A/B testing to improve sales from my website? How can analytics help me write a hit song? Perfect for anyone with the word "analyst" in their job title, Analytics Stories illuminates the process of applying analytic principles to practical problems and highlights the potential pitfalls that await careless analysts.
Data Action: using data for public good by Sarah Williams
ISBN: 9780262044196
Publication Date: 2020-12-08
How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression. Big data can be used for good-from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations-and for bad-implementing surveillance and control. Data inevitably represents the ideologies of those who control its use; data analytics and algorithms too often exclude women, the poor, and ethnic groups. In Data Action, Sarah Williams provides a guide for working with data in more ethical and responsible ways. Too often data has been used-and manipulated-to make policy decisions without much stakeholder input. Williams outlines a method that emphasizes collaboration among data scientists, policy experts, data designers, and the public. This approach creates trust and co-ownership in the data by opening the process to those who know the issues best.
The Data Detective: ten easy rules to make sense of statistics by Tim Harford
ISBN: 9780593084595
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
From "one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics" (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics. Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That's a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn't be suspicious of statistics--we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often "the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us." If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach them clearly--understanding how our own preconceptions lead us astray--statistics can point to ways we can live better and work smarter. As "perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world" (New Statesman), Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. In The Data Detective, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. As a result, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh, unexpected, and insightful.
Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio; Lauren F. Klein
ISBN: 0262358522
Publication Date: 2020-02-21
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics--one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought.
The Data Journalism Handbook by GRAY
ISBN: 9789462989511
Publication Date: 2021-03-23
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a diverse collection of perspectives on how data journalism is done around the world and the broader consequences of datafication in the news, serving as both a textbook and a sourcebook for this emerging field. With more than 50 chapters from leading researchers and practitioners of data journalism, it explores the work needed to render technologies and data productive for journalistic purposes. It also gives a "behind the scenes" look at the social lives of data sets, data infrastructures, and data stories in newsrooms, media organizations, start-ups, civil society organizations and beyond. The book includes sections on "doing issues with data," "assembling data," "working with data," "experiencing data," "investigating data, platforms and algorithms," "organizing data journalism," "learning data journalism together" and "situating data journalism."
Data Lives by Rob Kitchin
ISBN: 9781529215144
Publication Date: 2021-03-03
The word 'data' has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake? In Data Lives, renowned social scientist Rob Kitchin explores the intricacies of data creation and charts how data-driven technologies have become essential to how society, government and the economy work.Creatively blending scholarly analysis, biography and fiction, he demonstrates how data are shaped by social and political forces, and the extent to which they influence our daily lives. He reveals our data world to be one of potential danger, but also of hope.
Data versus democracy : how big data algorithms shape opinions and alter the course of history by Kris Shaffer
ISBN: 9781484245408
Publication Date: 2019
Teaches the impact of the attention economy and algorithmic information delivery on media production and consumption
Shows how regulations, business practices, and consumer safeguards have been slow to catch up to technological advances, leaving information platforms open to manipulation
Covers how both foreign and domestic operatives leveraged big-data analytics to win (or hack) elections
Includes information about social movements that have used participatory media to steer the narrative of mainstream media, [Publisher's Description]
Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi; Stefanie Posavec; Maria Popova (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781616895464
Publication Date: 2016-09-13
Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book.
Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
ISBN: 0062390856
Publication Date: 2017-05-09
Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world--provided we ask the right questions.
Hello World by Hannah Fry
ISBN: 9780393634990
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Hello World takes us on a tour through the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us on a daily basis. Mathematician Hannah Fry reveals their inner workings, showing us how algorithms are written and implemented, and demonstrates the ways in which human bias can literally be written into the code. By weaving in relatable, real world stories with accessible explanations of the underlying mathematics that power algorithms, Hello World helps us to determine their power, expose their limitations, and examine whether they really are improvement on the human systems they replace.
Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy by Maggie Walter (Editor); Tahu Kukutai (Editor); Stephanie Russo Carroll (Editor); Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear (Editor)
ISBN: 9780367222369
Publication Date: 2020-10-30
This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used Indigenous data to develop policies and programs.
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
ISBN: 9781683353140
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women+‹, diving into women's lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.
Mapping Crisis: participation, datafication and humanitarianism in the age of digital mapping by Doug Specht
ISBN: 9781912250332
Publication Date: 2020-09-16
This book brings together critical perspectives on the role that mapping people, knowledges, and data now plays in humanitarian work, both in cartographic terms and through data visualizations.
Open cities, open data: collaborative cities in the information era by Scott Hawken, Hoon Han, Chris Pettit (editors).
ISBN: 9789811366055
Publication Date: 2020
Synthesises two emerging topics: smart cities and open data. Presents an unconventional and innovative perspective on collaborative urban economies. Links open data with social aspirations such as urban inclusion and participation.
Queer Data: using gender, sex and sexuality data for action by Guyan, Kevin
ISBN: 9781350230743
Publication Date: 2022
This important book is the first to look at queer data – defined as data relating to gender, sex, sexual orientation and trans identity/history. The author shows us how current data practices reflect an incomplete account of LGBTQ lives and helps us understand how data biases are used to delegitimise the everyday experiences of queer people.
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
ISBN: 9780553418811
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
Tracing the arc of a person's life, O'Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society. These "weapons of math destruction" score teachers and students, sort résumés, grant (or deny) loans, evaluate workers, target voters, set parole, and monitor our health. O'Neil calls on modelers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end, it's up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives. This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions, uncover the truth, and demand change.
What Algorithms Want by Ed Finn
ISBN: 9780262035927
Publication Date: 2017-03-10
The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek. We depend on--we believe in--algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations--the marriage vow, the shaman's curse--do not merely describe the world but make it. Computation casts a cultural shadow that is shaped by this long tradition of magical thinking. In this book, Ed Finn considers how the algorithm--in practical terms, "a method for solving a problem"--has its roots not only in mathematical logic but also in cybernetics, philosophy, and magical thinking. Finn argues that the algorithm deploys concepts from the idealized space of computation in a messy reality, with unpredictable and sometimes fascinating results. Drawing on sources that range from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash to Diderot's Encyclopédie, from Adam Smith to the Star Trek computer, Finn explores the gap between theoretical ideas and pragmatic instructions. He examines the development of intelligent assistants like Siri, the rise of algorithmic aesthetics at Netflix, Ian Bogost's satiric Facebook game Cow Clicker, and the revolutionary economics of Bitcoin. He describes Google's goal of anticipating our questions, Uber's cartoon maps and black box accounting, and what Facebook tells us about programmable value, among other things. If we want to understand the gap between abstraction and messy reality, Finn argues, we need to build a model of "algorithmic reading" and scholarship that attends to process, spearheading a new experimental humanities.

Speakers and attendees shared many useful links yesterday, during the Pandora Papers for Data Lovers panel coordinated by Marcela Isuster (Associate Librarian, Coordinator, Digital Scholarship Hub, McGill University)

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Homepage of the ICIJ - breaking news and restropective analyses.ICIJ is a U.S.-based nonprofit, ..."a small, resourceful newsroom with our own reporting team, as well as a global network of reporters and media organizations who work together to investigate the most important stories in the world." (About)

Precision Journalism by Philip Meyer
ISBN: 9780742510876
Publication Date: 2002-03-04

Annual Data Journalism Conference Mar. 3-6 2022
IRE’s annual data journalism conference will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, and virtually March 3-6, 2022. This will be IRE's first hybrid event and first in-person event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is IRE? Investigative Reporters and Editors is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of journalism. We educate, empower and connect journalists across the globe, so we can live in a better, more informed world.
Offshore Leaks Database (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)
Find out who’s behind more than 800,000 offshore companies, foundations and trusts from the Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks investigations.

DISCLAIMER: There are legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts. The inclusion of a person or entity in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database is not intended to suggest or imply that they have engaged in illegal or improper conduct. Many people and entities have the same or similar names. We suggest you confirm the identities of any individuals or entities included in the database based on addresses or other identifiable information. The data comes directly from the leaked files ICIJ has received in connection with various investigations and each dataset encompasses a defined time period specified in the database. Some information may have changed over time. Please contact ICIJ if you find an error in the database.
Datashare (Beta release)
ISIJ developed this software for data-heavy investigations like the Panama Papers.
Datashare allows you to better analyze large amounts of information, in all its forms (text, pdf, images, etc.). It is a free open-source software (beta release) developed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

There is a Demo Database that you can explore rather than download the program; There is also an extensive User Guide provided here.
Leak To Us - ICIJ
How does the ICIJ gather information? Sometimes they just ask.

https://www.discourse.org/ https://github.com/ICIJ https://opencorporates.com/info/governance/ https://forbiddenstories.org/ https://themarkup.org/ https://github.com/ICIJ/prophecies