STEM Student Spotlight: Ayomide Babalola, Athabasca University
Welcome to our STEM Student Spotlight series, where we highlight the incredible initiatives and achievements led by STEM students in Canada. Our mission is to empower and inspire the next generation of engineers and innovators by celebrating the achievements of student leaders. In today’s spotlight, we’re excited to showcase Ayomide Babalola! Ayomide is a student from Athabasca University, and he participated in our Work Integrated Learning opportunity.
Ayomide has been learning about the potential of data processing and visualization by working on projects that involve retrieving different data sets from a list, creating stacked bar charts, as well as exploring API work. Through this blog post, we delve into Ayomide’s enlightening experience with these powerful tools and explore how they empower data-driven decisions and propel them toward exciting career opportunities.
Ayomide elucidated the process by which he acquired a wide array of various skills and knowledge through his involvement in diverse projects spanning his time with the Work Integrated Learning opportunity program.
“I learned a couple of data visualization types, including how to place data
in a grid chart. Further on I learned how to display certain specific data types like total votes won in each party.”
“I was able to retrieve time of cry current placing based on time differences. I also explored working with API’s; getting weather information by adjusting the longitude and latitude.”
“I was able to explore k-means clustering. I implemented supervised learning. This then allowed me to view an automated collection of data based on similarities.”
Ultimately, Ayomide reflected on how the skills he acquired contributed to both his personal development and professional advancement. He emphasized how engaging in data science coding equips young college students with the tools for success in data-driven professional environments.
“I can apply this education to my field by being able to virtualize data and read from different data file types in order to print data in a human readable manner. Implementing the use of virtualization in a company’s data to day activities will result in more efficient and accurate analysis.”
“This learning has and will benefit students like me to learn industry sensitive material while getting a reward for it. This form of education gives us the chance to gain semi-work expertise in order to be more knowledgeable than the average student when applying for jobs.”
Through these powerful data processing and visualization tools, Ayomide has unlocked the potential to make data-driven decisions that fuel innovation and drive meaningful change in his field. Stay tuned for more inspiring stories from our STEM Student Spotlight series!
