The CSULB Library has adopted the Data Haiku Contest from the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana.
In celebration of Love Data Week, 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 CSULB students and employees. One (1) submission per person. Submissions are due by 12:00pm (Noon) on Friday February 18, 2022. All entries will be shared on our Data Haiku page. Winners will be notified by 5:00pm on February 18, 2022. There are prizes for the Best Data Haiku and two Honorable Mentions!
Go HERE to submit your Data Haiku.
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, Israel
Prizes
There are prizes for the Best Data Haiku and two Honorable Mentions!
Judges
CSULB Library Professional Development and Personnel Committee (PDPC) members:
Nicollette Brant, Michelle DeMars, Khue Duong, Gabriel Gardner
Coordinator
CSULB Library Professional Development and Personnel Committee (PDPC) member Alexis Pavenick
Contest Note: All of the haikus were judged blind by the committee – which means they did not know the name or department of the poets when they read their haikus. For more information about the contest, scroll below the winners.
Winner 2022
Clear Cache
Ones, zeros, bits, bytes
Finally! The article!
Dangit, clear my cache
Heather Steele, Library
Honorable Mentions 2022 (in alphabetical order by last name)
I Don't Know Much About Data But Some Graphs Remind Me Of Constellations
Plot the data and
connect the dots, love. Turn each
one into a star.
Joanna DeLaOssa, Health & Human Services, Dept. of Family & Consumer Sciences
Data Lake
Drops of raw data
dripped into a data lake.
Water without wet.
Brooke Prado, College of Liberal Arts (English)
Complete Haiku Collection 2022 (in alphabetical order by last name, dept., and anonymous)
Check Your Drive
Wait! Where did it go?
I know that I clicked "save as."
oh wait, here it is.
Carlos Jr Cisneros
Take a Look
A shared history
The pages of a good book
Forgotten not lost
Adam Gajewski
Exploration
What treasures hide in
the numbers called my data?
I pursue answers.
Ann Kim, Human Development
More than Mister
I thought that data
Was the android from Star Trek
But it's a lot more.
Neil Hultgren, English Dept.
There is a Limit
Assembling zeroes
ones ordering binate bytes
quiescent restraint
Margaret Karteron, Operations, CNSM Dean's Office; English Dept.
Gratification of Dataification
Vessel for Knowing
Information unity
Gatha that data
Sabrina Norris, Health Science
Misrepresentation
Numbers flash on-screen--
are they a sharpened weapon?
I ready my shield
Anonymous, College of Liberal Arts
Haiku’s Third Law
Data never lies
An input creates an output
Yearning for the truth
Anonymous
Long Distance
A digital kiss
Instant gratification
I love you from here
Anonymous
Migraines
Numbers and figures,
That aches my brain while thinking.
Still don’t add up.
Anonymous