Monthly Archives: November 2009

Update on my projects

By Grant Grigorian | Published: November 30, 2009
Besides my full-time job, and I am also always working on several side projects. In the last several weeks, there’ve been two that have been eating up most of my free time: tutoring and honey. My tutoring company, No Excuses Tutoring, has had an unexpected bump in activity recently. I had several web leads that came in, [...]
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Going vegetarian for a week

By Grant Grigorian | Published: November 29, 2009
After much thought and encouragement from friends and family, I am officially a vegetarian for a week. Starting yesterday. There are many reasons why someone would want to be a vegetarian, and I don’t necessarily want to have that discussion here, but I’ve been thinking about it long enough that it’s time to actually try it. This [...]
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Data Visualization: Hans Rosling

By Grant Grigorian | Published: November 28, 2009
As any fan of data visualization and statistics has no doubt seen already, Professor Hans Rosling’s presentations on TED are as spectacular as they are inspiring. Professor Rosling uses data to tell a compelling story about the state of the world today, how we got here and where we’re going. He’s spoken at TED 5 times [...]
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