Several members of the postsecondary education community held special workshops and learning opportunities to celebrate Love Data Week, which runs from February 10th to 14th. The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research—a consortia of 750 international academic institutions—encouraged researchers and students to “adopt a dataset” and help share the information it contains. McGill University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Waterloo held interactive workshops focused on the use of different tools to wrangle, analyze, and interpret data. Meanwhile, the libraries at Simon Fraser University, UBC, the University of Northern British Columbia, and the University of Victoria collaborated on a series of talks and workshops about the use of the Abacus open repository.
