<p dir="ltr">A humorous flow diagram guiding researchers through questions (“physical pain?”, “downfall of civilisation?”, “chocolate budget?”) to decide whether to save data, ending in “save your data.”</p>
History
Creation date
2018-03-14
AltText
Whimsical flowchart asking successive “should you save data?” questions ending in “save your data.”
Transcript
Did you generate some data?
Stop procrastinating and go back to the lab/office/field
Is storage of this data going to cause you physical pain?
I suggest you review where you are inserting your data
Is saving this data going to lead to the downfall of civilisation?
Have you met civilisation? Would that really be a bad thing?
Is saving this data going to reduce your ability to buy chocolate?
Discard all data immediately, it’s not worth risking it
Save your data