Category Archives: Other
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.
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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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 [...]
Denver Union Station
One of my favorite buildings in Denver is the old Union Station in Lodo. Today I found a new website by the Union Station Neighborhood Co. promoting the proposed build up all around the historic site. We are getting a new train station, more multi-use buildings, all in addition to more rail transit. Here are [...]
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
Still going with the ‘I hate unsolicited email’ theme, yesterday I joined an organization called CAUCE after doing a few searches on the topic. On it’s website, CAUCE says that it’s mission as an all-volunteer consumer advocacy organization, has moved beyond its original mission of encouraging the creation and adoption of anti-spam laws to a [...]
The Mast Brothers Chocolate