The importance of data and continuous learning

In this episode host Orlaith Lawton speaks with Oracle Ace Director Finland Heli Helskyaho about the importance of data and continuous learning.

 

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Episode Transcript:

 

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Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat. This podcast provides educators and students in-depth discussions with thought leaders around computer science, cloud technologies and software design to help students on their journey to becoming industry ready technology leaders. Of the future. Let's get started. Hello, everybody. Today, in February 2024, my name is Orlaith Lawton that I'm the Oracle Academy and Media Marketing Manager.
 
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And I'm delighted to say I'm here with my colleague Rania Herberg, who represents Oracle Academy in Helsinki. And Heli Helskyaho. She is the CEO for Miracle Finland OY. She also holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Helsinki, and she's specialized in databases.
 
00;01;08;29 - 00;01;44;15
At the moment, she's working on her doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki. And Henry has actually been working on it since 1990. She's also an Oracle ace director and a frequent speaker at my company since she's also an author of Oracle as well. Developer Data Monitor for Database Design Mastery and a coauthor of Real World School and Feel and School Advice from the Experts, Machine Learning for Oracle Database Professionals and several other books.
 
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So we are absolutely delighted to have you here, Heli. Thank you so much for joining us. And let me start off by maybe talking a little bit about to as I mentioned, you're an author and you're very interested in data and it's fantastic to have a female voice in technology. Perhaps you can give us a little bit of background about your role and how you got into technology and became an oracle ACE
 
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So I always love to answer this that I always wanted to be in tech and I always loved computers and that kind of stuff, but I didn't. I actually hated computers, so I was studying mathematics and I didn't know what I want to do when I grow up. And I my father told me to take some computer science classes and I was thinking, okay, why not?
 
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Because actually learning was always very easy for me. So I was thinking, it's going to be a piece of cake, you know, just some computers and that's it. But it was not. So when I took the first course, I barely passed and I didn't understand anything. So that was so frustrating because I was the A-plus student. And I just, you know, didn't understand anything.
 
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So I was blaming the teacher. The teacher must be bad. And I will take another course that is taught by another teacher. But the same happened again. And then I was thinking, it cannot be the teacher, it must be me. So there's something I don't understand about computers and the computer science. And because I always loved challenges, I decided I will take more courses.
 
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I never give up. So I always like to fight. So I was saying, I need to know what. What's the problem? Why don't I understand anything? And I took more and more courses. Finally, I took all their courses you can take as a minus student. And I was thinking, I still don't know anything. So I had to change my major and start with computer science.
 
00;03;36;20 - 00;03;58;03
So I went to see the faculty principal and I said, I want to change the computer science. And he was like, Are you kidding you? You're very good in math, but you are no good in computer science. So why do you want to change? I said, Well, you just described it. That's why. Because I really