Hesburgh Libraries

2022 Haiku Winners

Title: Haiku 999
cloud covers over
aggregations of Snowflakes;
a Tableau vivant.
Author: Breighan Boeskool, Faculty/Staff, Investment Office

Title: 68.27%
so it is shaped like
a normal distribution
and who cares about
Author: Michael Brown, Graduate Student, Philosophy

Title: Interpolation
Interpolation
Answers questions no one asked
More data from less
Author: Peter Schimpf, Undergraduate Student, Aerospace Engineering

Honorable Mentions

Title: Learning Algorithms
Snow falls lightly, sweet
Teach a machine to count flakes
It learns uniqueness
Author: Patrick Shields, Graduate Student, History and Philosophy of Science

Title: Qualitative
Transcribing myself—
Do I really sound like that?
How embarrassing.
Author: Rachael Rosenberg, Graduate Student, International Peace Studies

Title: Untitled
Abandon all hope
Ye who forget to rename
the blank cells to NaN
Author: Heather Buelow, Faculty/Staf, Biological Sciences

Title: matched 1 (_merged==3)
merge 1:1 heart ///
using potential_soulmates
** a match meant to be
Author: Brendan Tinoco, Faculty/Staff, Economics

Title: Collecting
Fairy, imp, harpy, fiend
Run, hide, disguise, disappear
Data I will hunt
Author: Cyndi Belmarez, Faculty/Staff, Office of Strategic Planning & Institutional Research

Title: “Imaginary Love(z)”
My (x) just passed me
(+) (i) could have said hello
Instead it was b(y)e
Author: Sarah Nicholls, Undergraduate Student, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics

Title: "2024"
Piercing chill I feel
Five-three-eight has that madman
back behind the wheel
Author: Randy Harrison, Faculty/Staff, Hesburgh Libraries

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 18.

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. Authors of winning and honorable mention entries will be notified via email on February 18.

Winning and honorable mention entries will be posted on the Data Haiku event page.

Judges
Arnaud Zimmern, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship
Katie Walden, American Studies
Matthew Kilbane, English
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, English

See the 2021 Love Data Haiku contest winners.