Author Archives: Grant Grigorian
Dreaming of the land
Recently I’ve been on an agricultural kick, often finding myself day-dreaming about working outside, reminiscing about how I used to roam my great-grandparent’s farm in Ukraine when I was little. Living in Colorado, it’s so easy to fall in love with the beauty of the land. Here are a couple of dreams: A California Avocado [...]
About this blog
I realized today that I’ve had this blog for 4 years now, since 2006. And over those years, I’ve found that I’m not a particularly good blogger. I’ma lousy blogger because I don’t update frequently and my content is all over the place – and I’m beginning to realize that the two are related. I [...]
Too cool not to share
Via Hack a Day: Here’s how to make one yourself.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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