NYU Wikimedians, which include Libraries staff and faculty, are hosting an event for Love Data Week. The goal is to help scholars understand more about the ways they can use Wikidata to improve information flow on the web.
Did you know you can use Wikidata both to find and create data? Through the topic of climate change, this workshop will introduce Wikidata and the SPARQL query language through hands-on examples and activities. Participants will leave with tools to contribute to linked open data initiatives and to query and visualize openly available data.
Founded in 2012, Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base of structured data. It supports other Wikimedia projects (such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons) and is used as a data source for commercial products like Google’s Knowledge Graph. It also expands access across languages!
About Love Data Week
Sponsored by NYU IT and NYU Libraries, Data Services hosts a month-long series of events, data-related classes/workshops, privacy-themed pizza party, viz competition, data-career panel, lightning talks and more…a collective celebration of Love Data Week 2023 💜
The special events will take place between February 13-17. Register and see the full schedule here: guides.nyu.edu/love-data-week.
The goal is to celebrate the possibilities of working with data; foster a community around computational and data-informed work by raising awareness; and promote the importance of data management, reproducibility, and responsible and ethical data (re)use.
This event is free and open to all current NYU students, staff and faculty. Please do not forget to invite your fellow colleagues, students and friends at NYU, and please promote this event.
