Taking the "Right Data"

Alan Eli Willner

Data are the critical evidence of your ideas and are often extremely difficult to take later—so don’t wait.

Researcher sitting in a lab writing[Moyo Studio / Getty Images]

As it says in the book of Ecclesiastes, “There is a time for planting and a time for harvesting.” In technical fields, there is a time for building your experiment and a time for aggressively taking the right data.

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