Author Archives: Grant Grigorian
Update on my projects
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, [...]
Going vegetarian for a week
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 [...]
Data Visualization: Hans Rosling
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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Why I stopped volunteering at my Neighborhood Association
For the last year, I’ve been an active volunteer at the South City Park Neighborhood Association (SCPNA). As the “Secretary” of SCPNA, I was in a supporting role, helping the president and other officers conduct the neighborhood business. For example, while the president was on vacation in Europe, I stepped in to publish the quarterly [...]
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Confusion vs Information
Nice and simple.
via FlowData, via Indexed Blog.
Data Visualization
With proliferation of websites like FlowingData, and an increasing emphasis on making of otherwise obscure and inaccessible data in my own professional life, I’m thinking about learning more about how to create beautiful custom visualizations.
Excel works well for most quick tasks – but how cool would it be to be able to create interactive, colorful charts that [...]
Simply Honey
A few weeks ago I had to pleasure of being able to visit Simply Honey, a Colorado bee keeper in Alamosa, and given a personal tour of the honey making operation.
Simply Honey’s owner and sole employee is Brent Edelen, a third generation bee keeper. He has between 500 and 600 colonies that he moves to [...]
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Inside Sales Analytics, Tracking Daily Activity
As a data geek who’s recently switched careers into sales, I can’t help but think about analytics in my new role as a Lead Gen Rep. To me data is crucial in understanding what’s effective and what’s not. So, I decided to be really diligent about keeping track of everything I do on a daily [...]
Lovely Confections
A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I were in a bit of a cake emergency (a decoration disaster!) and were heroically rescued by a local bakery/cupcake shop called Lovely Confections.
Porche Lovely, the owner of Lovely Confections stepped up to the challenge and was able to spontaneously re-decorate a cake from another bakery in about a [...]
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