What Could Possibly Go Wrong? The Impact of Poor Data Management
You could likely come up with many poor outcomes of poor data management on your own; I appreciate that this article not only shares examples, but also highlights what could be done differently to avoid those issues in the first place.
A Tibetan monk lost his life’s work after posing for a photograph with London Mayor Boris Johnson. A long-time Flickr user lost thousands of original digital photographs when the photo sharing service erroneously deleted them. The programmers of the movie Toy Story 2 nearly lost the entire movie file when someone accidentally typed a wrong command. A data set containing mistakes from careless data entry forced a scientist to request retraction of seven articles. What do these unfortunate situations all have in common? These are all situations in which poor data management practices caused problems that could have been avoided.