{"id":6344,"date":"2018-02-14T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T18:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2018-02-14T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T18:30:03","slug":"love-your-data-week18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/14\/love-your-data-week18\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Ways to Show Your Data Some Love: Love Data Week &#8217;18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Show your data some love during this week, &#8220;Love Data Week&#8221; (or LDW) and all year long using the six tips listed in the graphic below.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/lovedataweek.org\/\">LDW website<\/a>, the event is designed &#8220;to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe research data are the foundation of the scholarly record and crucial for advancing our knowledge of the world around us,&#8221; notes the <a href=\"http:\/\/lovedataweek.org\/about-ldw\/\">LDW organizers on the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information from Purdue Libraries, visit our &#8220;Data Management for Undergraduate Researchers: Introduction&#8221; LibGuide, at <a href=\"http:\/\/guides.lib.purdue.edu\/undergraddata\">http:\/\/guides.lib.purdue.edu\/undergraddata<\/a>, and learn more about our Data Visualization Experience Lab of Purdue (D-VELoP) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.purdue.edu\/d-velop\">www.lib.purdue.edu\/d-velop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guides.lib.purdue.edu\/undergraddata\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6347\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/02\/6-Ways-to-Show-Your-Data-Some-Love-web2.jpg?resize=600%2C882&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"6 Ways to Show Your Data Some Love: 1. Use open source\/non-proprietary and uncompressed data formats for long-term accessibility; 2. Create an organizational scheme and consistent naming convention to manage your files; 3. Find connections in your data in the Purdue Libraries' Data Visualization Experience lab (D-VELoP); 4. Create a &quot;data dictionary&quot; to unambiguously define (and remember) the meaning of your variables; 5. Make sure you have two or three backups in different physical locations; 6. 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