Love Data Week 2025: Data Haiku Contest
2025 Data Haiku Winners
Congratulations to the 2025 Data Haiku winners!
The following winners are in no particular order.
Title: Latin Roots
Is data something
We make or something we find?
Perhaps it’s “given.”
Author: Claire Murphy, Graduate Student, College of Arts & Letters
Title: Relational Rhapsody
Relational bonds,
Joins connect latent data,
Rows bind, like old friends.
Author: Mayleen Liu, Undergraduate Student, College of Engineering
Title: A Poem for 2025 (with Apologies to Dylan Thomas)
Data, do not go
Gentle into that good night.
With you, we will rage.
Author: Kevin McNulty, Center for University Advising
Honorable Mentions
Title: Data's Quiet Symphony
Bits weave endless streams,
Silent, shaping worlds unseen—
Knowledge blooms in code.
Author: John Flanagan, Undergraduate Student, College of Engineering
Title: Nachtarbeit
From ASCII Tables
To variable labels
Long cold nights in lab.
Author: Ian Martin, Undergraduate Student, College of Engineering
Title: Data Snack
Hungry for info?
Sit at the data table,
Have a byte to eat.
Author: Ava Schwan, Undergraduate Student, College of Science
Untitled
Normalization -
the unadjusted values
shouted the loudest
Author: Matthew Lad, Graduate Student, College of Engineering
Title: Dawn of Data
Star schemas reflect
On a streaming data lake
Clouds slowly emerge
Author: Grace Scartz, Graduate Student, ACE Teaching Fellow
Title: A Lovers Quarrel With Data
Whenever we meet
I trust, but often you lie
You’re so elusive
Author: Lina Mckimson, Undergraduate Student, College of Science
Title: Silicon’s Silent Signals
Logic gates unfold,
electrons dance, bits take form,
thoughts become data.
Author: JT Stoffel, 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 14.
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 17 and will be posted on the Data Haiku event page.
See the 2024 Love Data Haiku contest winners.
About Love Data Week
Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us!
