2026 Data Haiku Winners
Congratulations to the 2026 Data Haiku winners!
The following winners are in no particular order.
Title: Digital Alexandria
Packets flicker out,
Slow sparks sweep the old hard drives—
echoes of parchment.
Author: Vincent Micheli, College of Business
Title: A Question
If I, like data,
Am stripp'd, purified, refined,
Can I too be clean?
Author: Emma Schmidt, College of Science
Title: Rivers and Nodes
Rivers of data
branch out to bit streams flowing
through banks of compute.
Author: David Shaw, College of Science
Honorable Mentions
Untitled
Box floats into clouds,
Okta changes once again,
Still our data holds.
Author: April Garcia, Institute for Educational Initiatives
Title: Flying
Climb, crawl, fly, and grow
Oh the data fruit flies bring
Managing the mess?
Author: David Gazzo, College of Engineering
Title: Procrastination
Collected data
Needs to be interpreted
Maybe tomorrow.
Author: Monica Kowalski, Institute for Educational Initiatives
Untitled
in a mountain deep
ancient data-lake awaits
a hobbit’s query
Author: Matthew Lad, College of Engineering
Title: Large (love) Language Model
Transpose, Query, Parse
Aggregate and merge our lives
The data of us.
Author: Grace Scartz, Alliance for Catholic Education
Title: Shared Glow
Your fav'rite program
is on again. Should rest, but
just one more rerun.
Author: Kasey Wilkens, School of Architecture
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 13.
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
Three 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 2025 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!
