It’s that time of year again, Love Data Week 2025 is here! This year’s event is dedicated to the issue of data ownership, inviting us to think about where the data we use comes from as we ask, “whose data is it, anyway?”
This is a topic we care deeply about at the UK Data Service. We try to make it as easy as possible for users to find information about how the data we provide access to has been collected.
We’re also passionate about the need to cite data correctly. It’s impossible to analyse and verify new pieces of research if we don’t know where datasets have come from. That’s why we run a dedicated Cite the Data campaign to emphasise that citing a dataset is just as important as citing articles, books, images and websites.
Resources for Love Data Week 2025
Love Data Week is the perfect time to start engaging with the wider data community and learning new skills. And there’s no better place to start than with our training events, workshops and conferences.
You can find a full list of what we have planned over the coming months at our events page. Some of the highlights include:
- Our spring 2025 introductory training series, March-June
- The UK Data Service Crime Surveys User Conference 2025, 5 March
- The UK Census User Conference 2025, 12 June
Recordings of UK Data Service events are made available on our YouTube channel and on our past events pages soon after the event has taken place. You can also find a host of online training resources at our Learning Hub.
Get in touch
If you have any questions about the services we provide or need some help navigating our data collections, then please drop us a line and our team will be more than happy to assist. We’re always keen to hear from data users and those interested in joining the wider community of researchers interested in learning about, teaching about and using data!