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In this concluding chapter of the book, we take a light-hearted look at the personal characteristics required to act as a resilient, effective, and ethical data professional in the built environment sector.
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When seeking a review from the ‘double doctor wife,’ a clinical psychologist, she asked what we meant by ‘soft skills’ and were we buying into the idea of empathy and emotional intelligence as ‘soft,’ as in ‘to be soft’, and the negative connotations of that phrase? Your authors were unconscious to that and assumed ‘soft skills’ was a universal term. It does raise an interesting dynamic found in the construction sector in general. We have moved on leaps and bounds in our emotional intelligence, but our use of language still hints to a notion of needing to be ‘hard to get on.’
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Gordon, I., Thompson, N. (2024). How to Be a Data Person. In: Data and the Built Environment. Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51008-3_7
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