Hey academics!

Your papers, thesis, dissertation, project – whatever – is based on data, right? No data, nothing to talk about.

So every paper should have a data management section. It should be quite straightforward and easy to fill out, assuming that you were doing things well to begin with. (Hint: make it easy to fill out.)

• Data was stored prior to processing at this facility with the following access restrictions and encryption.

• Data was anonymized / is still live / was cleared by the IRB as not sensitive. Total data is X records.

• Data is archived at the university at this URL. Access is open / requires IRB clearance.

• Processing was done at these facilities. Intermediate results are archived / were securely deleted. Programs used were X (version), Y (version)… with the following licenses.

• No new code or configs were written for this dissertation / source code, executable artifacts and configs are archived at the university at this URL

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