Sep 3, 2026 · 27 min · 10 segments
**Welcome back to *My Career in Data*, a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.** In this episode, we speak with…
Jayakumar RamalingamGuest
Shannon KempHost
That also keeps evolving, right? I remember back in days where I had to run behind books and keep track of books and then learning from books.
learn uh from a book or something you can directly have a lot of options to ask questions directly so now how i learn is like i keep myself with the tech updates but whenever there is a questions i i'll be like hey how they are solving it what they are doing it how this problem is i always uh you know closely relates to some of the real world problem that i'm seeing or facing not just from my work even from outside i do something personally also in software and also any other things that i visualize i try to learn like hey how things are getting done like i know uh at least tech side trying to be you know we cannot be masterable but i can at least be jack off from me That's how I keep updating whatever that's coming new and try to learn.
biggest lesson is like like we are talking the obvious lesson is you know never stop learning and you can't you know especially in the industry where like if the data or tech or something so that is one of the key aspects of it and other thing is
from a individual perspective aspects as well as you know the project aspects from an individual uh you gotta keep your communications both the vertical up the ladder or the horizontal even with the non-text because the more you communicate the more you understand the problem so it's not about you know building a perfect solution actually to me to be honest there is no perfect solution so uh because the more you communicate you know like sometimes you communicate with the product or the customer they're like no we don't even care about that information.
So it's always, you know, the communication helps you to see the problem as a holistic view, right? Like rather than certain focus, that's how, because sometimes some data are easily available.
You are trying to, you know, generate it or like, you know, complicate it.
And as a personally, as part of communication, you ask a lot of questions.
So that is one of the big lessons, you know, that I, and obviously as part of tech, as I was saying, learning and curiosity and being creative also, one of the things that needs to be there.
It's just, it helps, I think, everyone that in the community has such an open mind.
That also keeps evolving, right? I remember back in days where I had to run behind books and keep track of books and then learning from books.
learn uh from a book or something you can directly have a lot of options to ask questions directly so now how i learn is like i keep myself with the tech updates but whenever there is a questions i i'll be like hey how they are solving it what they are doing it how this problem is i always uh you know closely relates to some of the real world problem that i'm seeing or facing not just from my work even from outside i do something personally also in software and also any other things that i visualize i try to learn like hey how things are getting done like i know uh at least tech side trying to be you know we cannot be masterable but i can at least be jack off from me That's how I keep updating whatever that's coming new and try to learn.
biggest lesson is like like we are talking the obvious lesson is you know never stop learning and you can't you know especially in the industry where like if the data or tech or something so that is one of the key aspects of it and other thing is
from a individual perspective aspects as well as you know the project aspects from an individual uh you gotta keep your communications both the vertical up the ladder or the horizontal even with the non-text because the more you communicate the more you understand the problem so it's not about you know building a perfect solution actually to me to be honest there is no perfect solution so uh because the more you communicate you know like sometimes you communicate with the product or the customer they're like no we don't even care about that information.
So it's always, you know, the communication helps you to see the problem as a holistic view, right? Like rather than certain focus, that's how, because sometimes some data are easily available.
You are trying to, you know, generate it or like, you know, complicate it.
And as a personally, as part of communication, you ask a lot of questions.
So that is one of the big lessons, you know, that I, and obviously as part of tech, as I was saying, learning and curiosity and being creative also, one of the things that needs to be there.
It's just, it helps, I think, everyone that in the community has such an open mind.
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