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2024 Data Haiku Winners

Congratulations to the 2024 Data Haiku winners!

The following winners are in no particular order.

Winners

Title: The Transparent Digit
What art thou, datum?
--'til you meet the collective,
Zero and Oneness.
Author: Kevin McNulty, Center for University Advising

Title: Digging Deep
In the data mines,
One toils not with numbers, cold,
But with questions, real.
Author: Scott Howland, College of Arts & Letters

Title: Cancer Researcher
Numbers collected
Hypothesis Rejected
Cure in the next vial?
Author: Emily Cronberger, Harper Cancer Research Institute

Honorable Mentions

Title: A Song for Metrics
Metrics tell stories
If we have ears to listen
The numbers will sing
Author: Kelsey Forry, Notre Dame Alumni Association

Untitled
Bits dance in the void,
Numbers weave their silent tale,
Data whispers truth.
Author: Hunter Koch, Undergraduate Student, College of Engineering

Title: (False) Confidence Intervals
They say ten percent
Of statistics are made up.
Or maybe thirty?
Author: Ava Schwan, Undergraduate Student, College of Science

Title: Whispers of Wisdom
Data streams whisper,
Numbers weave tales of insight,
Knowledge flows like waves
Author: Brian Joseph, Undergraduate Student, College of Science

Title: Files Pending Deletion
Who owned that spreadsheet?
Uh oh, the former postdoc?
Goodbye dear data.
Author: Heather Buelow, College of Science

Title: Haiku for a Cataloger
Bibliographic
Data for machines to read
Behold, retro MARC
Author: Amanda Bullington, Hesburgh Libraries

Untitled
"Feed it more data."
Will it ever have enough
to understand truth?
Author: David Shaw, Graduate Student, College of Science

About the Data Haiku Contest

Write a haiku about data! Your haiku must be related to data in some way (e.g., data management, processing, sharing, preservation, reuse, etc.).

The contest is open to current Notre Dame students and employees. 1 submission per person.

Submissions are due by noon on February 16.

What is a Haiku?

Haikus have a rigid structure of 17 syllables divided across 3 lines. The first line should have 5 syllables, the second line should have 7 syllables, and the third line should have 5 syllables. Haikus do not need to rhyme.

Haiku Example

Title: Preprocessing
Cleaning, reducing
and ignoring outliers.
Only one case left.

Author: Arnon Hershkovitz

Prizes

3 winners will receive an "I Love Data" coffee mug. Winning haikus will be selected by a panel of judges. Authors of winning and honorable mention entries will be notified via email on February 16 and will be posted on the Data Haiku event page.

See the 2023 Love Data Haiku contest winners.