Executive Order on AI Development

On October 30th, the White House issued an Executive Order outlining various new standards to ensure the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of Artificial Intelligence. The next day, DJ Patil, former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, posted the below on LinkedIn: Since we already have a tool built to do exactly this, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

Staying Updated with Real-Time News

In today’s world, staying updated with the latest news and information is crucial. One of the best sources for real-time news is the internet, where we can access a wide range of articles, blogs, and other content. However, manually sifting through all this information can be a daunting task. This is where the power of

NFL Season and Fantasy Leagues

The NFL season is back in full swing. If you’re a sports and data nerd like myself, you’re ready to flex some of your analytical skills to try and beat all your friends in your fantasy leagues. Or you can take a crack at Daily Fantasy, which involves picking players and forming a team based

March Madness for Sports Fans

At a time defined by tears, of both sadness and joy, March Madness reigns supreme as arguably the most intriguing month of the year for sports fans. Here at TCB Analytics, we are no different as not only are we huge sports fans but we take it a step further as data geeks, analyzing the

Delivering Data to Clients

We’ve delivered processed result data to clients in various ways. Sometimes we create a custom Shiny dashboard hosted on Amazon Web Services or shinyapps.io. In simpler cases, it is a flat text file, Excel sheet, or for more complex cases – a hosted database solution with a Tableau implementation sitting on top. Then along came

Challenges with Data Analysis Projects

Many analysis projects involve data that is not stored in a database or easily accessible directly through Tableau. In some cases, clients have disparate Excel sheets that require cleansing or some amount of manipulation before importing into Tableau. The client may send updated data often, which requires re-running scripts, updating the data manually in Tableau

Visualizing NBA Player Movement Data

Everyone’s excited about the newly released NBA player movement data that’s been released – at least I am. I stumbled across this post which shows how to visualize player movement data in Python, but I wanted to figure out how to do the same in R. We’ll use a combination of several R packages including