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Should you save your data

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posted on 2025-06-12, 13:54 authored by Matthew PartridgeMatthew Partridge
<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>

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2018-03-14

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Whimsical flowchart asking successive “should you save data?” questions ending in “save your data.”

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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

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