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Questions for the Yellow Group on 'Data'
1. Where do you store your data?
2. Which data do you store … and for how long?
3. Permission for collecting data
a) Do you need permission for collecting data?
b) What (other) kind of data can you think of, where this would be necessary?
4. Can you take your lab book home to do some calculations over the weekend?
5. What do you do with data points that do not fit your hypothesis?
6. Who owns the data you collect?
7. Who has access to your data?
8.What rights do you have to publish the data you collect?
9. Have you discussed data organization / storage in your working group?
10. Image, you have recently published a paper. Hurrah!
A scientist you do not know contacts you, congratulates you on your interesting paper, and asks if you can please send her the data on the basis of which you made Figure 2, because she found something similar and would like to compare the results in detail.
a. What do you do?
b. Do you have to send her the results?
Resources: please use the general resources in the “Good Scientific Practice” section of the Wiki