Object lesson in data sharing

[John F Hall]

Henry Rzepa just sent this out to the Research Data Management list  ([hidden email]) under the subject: Painful story;  does anyone have similar stories to tell?

 

It’s brilliant and apposite: enjoy! 

 

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/11/11/a-painful-but-true-to-life-look-at-data-availability-and-reuse/

 

John F Hall (Mr)

[Retired academic survey researcher]

 

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Website: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

SPSS start page:  www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/1-survey-analysis-workshop

 

 

 

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[David Marso]

Yikes!!  Had a position  as a data manager in a University lab.
My predecessor had the brilliant idea to reformat the machine I was going to be using without building a backup of the project files I was going to be working on.
I had to reassemble the relevant data from partial archives and then manually go through all of the raw data to verify that I had a  complete file with all participants.  Not only that but after I reinstalled windows I picked up a nasty virus almost immediately due to serious stuff beaming around the university network.  It then took 2 days to get IT to come up and fix my box.
What a pain in the ass that whole week proved to be.

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John F Hall wrote

Henry Rzepa just sent this out to the Research Data Management list
([hidden email]
<mailto:[hidden email]> ) under the subject: Painful
story;  does anyone have similar stories to tell?
 
It's brilliant and apposite: enjoy!  
 
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/11/11/a-painful-but-true-to-l
ife-look-at-data-availability-and-reuse/
 
John F Hall (Mr)
[Retired academic survey researcher]
 
Email:   [hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>  
Website: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com
<http://www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/> 
SPSS start page:
www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/1-survey-analysis-workshop
<http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/1-survey-analysis-workshop.html> 
 
 
 

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SIGNOFF SPSSX-L
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