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Love Data Week

An annual celebration of all things data

Winners of the 2025 Meme-ing Your Data Competition!

We are excited to announce the winning memes for the 2025 Love Data Week Meme-ing Your Data Competition! This years first prize was Camille Edwards and the honorable mention goes to Alisha Madan. Camille’s meme won her the data gift bag, and Alisha received a variety of fun data stickers for her meme.

First Prize Winner: Camille Edwards

A meme where a excited man looks at text that says "task: sort the data by state". Below that is the same man's suprised and upset face when he see's all the different spellings and acronyms that people used to indicate New York state.

CC-BY 4.0 Camille Edwards

 

Honorable Mention: Alisha Madan

A meme with a women and a man lying next to each other in bed. The women is looking suspiciously at the man thinking "I bet he's thinking about another women." The man is laying down with a focused look and is thinking "If I don't understand a data vizualization, is it just modern art?"

CC-BY 4.0 Alisha Madan

We had such a fun time laughing at this year’s submissions for the Love Data Week Meme-ing Your Data Competition! Come see our wall of meme submissions on in the Research Data & Digital Scholarship Exchange on the first floor of Van Pelt Library. We look forward to having even more participants for Love Data Week 2026!  

Love Data Week Events

Research Data & Digital Scholarship has teamed up with friends from the Education Commons and across the Penn Libraries to organize some exciting activities for Love Data Week 2025.

International Love Data Week, hosted by the ICSPR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research), is an annual celebration of data during the week of Valentine's Day. This year's theme, "Whose Data Is It Anyway?" challenges us to examine the origins and ownership of data before using it in our work. Through a series of events, we are asking questions about data provenance--who created, who owns, who can use data--and celebrating data through games!

The week kicks off with an examination of data ethics, followed by an exploration of data use and reuse through a variety of lenses, such as LLMs, persistent identifiers, and metadata. On Wednesday, we’ll host the Data Games in RDDSx. The week concludes with two special events: Douglass Day in collaboration with the Price Lab and an afternoon with the Penn Museum exploring their board games collection, which inspired our Data Games replicas. More events will be happening throughout the week. Check out the Love Data Week calendar for descriptions and registration details.

Sessions not to miss!

RDDS Flier with pink background, red circles, and QR code.

Come learn and play with us!

"Meme-ing Your Data" Competition

Meme-ing Your Data Competition advertisement for Love Data Week 2025

 

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries will be celebrating Love Data Week 2025 by hosting our second "Meme-ing Your Data". This meme creation competition encourages you to create humorous memes depicting your relationship with your data. Use this submission form to submit your favorite data-themed memes. 

A panel of humorous meme-literate nerds will be judging based on relatability, humor, and pure opinion. The winner will take home a data-themed goodie bag!

Rules: 

  • Don’t be a jerk or gross.
  • You can submit more than one meme.
  • Do not use AI to create your meme; you can use it to brainstorm ideas.
  • By submitting, you are giving us the right to share your meme publicly.
  • We will credit the meme to you whenever we use it. This will most likely be in our RDDS newsletter and an RDDS blog post. 
  • University of Pennsylvania students, faculty, and staff are welcome to participate.

Submit your meme using our Meme Submission Form. 

Submissions are due on Monday, February 17th. The winner will be emailed shortly after.

 

Enjoy some sample memes made by our team! 

A meme with text that says Data scientists explaining AI can't save us from bad training data. This is over a photo of a man attempting to explain his wild conspiracy theory that is covering a wall with paper and string connecting his theories.

The first panel is a women crying and yelling "You said you'd share your data!" The second panel is a white cat sitting in front of a salad with a mischevious face saying "I never said it would be useful."

Meme-ing Your Data 2024 Winners

Check out the winning memes for the Love Data Week Meme-ing Your Data 2024 competition! 

First Prize Winner: Cara Cuiule

A meme with Disney Princess Bell on one side that says the data I was promised. On the other side is a cake decorated to look like Princess Belle but is hilariously deformed and it says the data I was given.

                    CC-BY 4.0 Cara Cuiule

Honorable Mention: Aman Kaur

A cartoon animation still image with a variety of Spidermans pointing to each other. At the top of the image it says "When I asked for the lastest spreadsheet file". At the bottom is says "I knew we forgot to talk abotu something important at the planning stage."

                       CC-BY 4.0 Aman Kaur

 

Honorable Mention: Sam Kirk

A four paneled meme with images taken from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. The first image shows Anakin Skywalker looking at Padme where he says "I used the auto-coding feature to code all my interviews". In the second panel Padme answers "But just to get ideas for your manual coding, right?". The third panel shows Anakin with a sassy look in his eye. In the final panel, Padme worriedly repeats "But just to get ideas for your manual coding, right?"

                    CC-BY 4.0 Sam Kirk

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