Episode 26: Halimat Alabi, Interactive Visualization Designer

Our guest of this episode, Halimat Alabi, has been many places and done many things. Listen as she brings us along on her journey through video game design, film and television, and research and teaching, with lots of laughs and poignant moments. She also gives advice for achieving work-life balance, including balancing family and career, and gives us insight into cutting edge visual analytics research. Formally trained as an engineer, Halimat describes herself as an interactive visualization designer. She is currently an instructor for the Art Institute and doing visual learning analytics research at Simon Fraser University. She received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant for her research, and has published a book chapter called "A Language and a Space: Visualizing Learning Online" in the learning analytics textbook, "Developing Effective Educational Experiences through Learning Analytics." She has worked in console game development for Sony and THQ and has worked on PSP, PS2, PS3 and Wii games. For a full transcription of this episode, click here. Relevant Links:  3-2-1 Contact Accessibility, Innovation, and Mobility project Amazon Alexa Halimat on LinkedIn Halimat's website Pozole Hosted by: Danniele Livengood (@livengood) Theme Music: "Positive and Fun" by Scott Holmes Produced by: Vanessa Reich-Shackelford Please consider leaving us a review on iTunes or Stitcher! For more from Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology, you can follow us on Twitter at @WWEST_SFU, on Facebook at @WWEST.SFU, and subscribe to our biweekly newsletter at wwest.ca.