<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​W​</div>e often denigrate the role of the technician, but I think technical difficulties associated with working with real data are often a real blocker; which means we either skill up ourselves, or <b><font color="#ff0000">recognise the need for skilled data technicians.</font></b><div><br><a href="http://blog.ouseful.info/2015/09/04/data-literacy-do-we-need-data-scientists-or-data-technicians/">http://blog.ouseful.info/2015/09/04/data-literacy-do-we-need-data-scientists-or-data-technicians/</a></div></div>