# TCB’s Tanya Cashorali at R/Medicine 2025
Last month, TCB’s Tanya Cashorali gave a talk at R/Medicine 2025, covering a recent project where we automated patient inquiry tracking with R, Shiny and Smartsheet for a pharmaceutical company. Here’s a link to the full video…

# Super Bowl 54 Data Analysis
Super Bowl 54 is only 2 days away so we decided to analyze the upcoming game by pulling some data from ESPN.com. We used R to scrape the data from the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs stats pages. The data were then cleaned and transformed slightly to make ingestion into Tableau Public simple.

# Game of Thrones Finale Reactions
Game of Thrones has finally wrapped up after 8 seasons. Naturally, watchers have been outspoken about their opinions of the series finale and the final season altogether. Now that we’ve had a few days to recover, we wanted to analyze watcher reactions and see if we could add some structure to our understanding of these

# TCB Analytics at Bio-IT World 2018
TCB Analytics is excited to participate in Bio-IT World 2018. Running from May 15-17 in Boston, the conference covers leading technology trends in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Program tracks include everything from data computing and machine learning to bioinformatics and clinical genomics. If you’re interested in attending and haven’t already registered, there’s still time

# Mara Averick Keynoting at EARL Boston
We’re incredibly excited that TCB’s Mara Averick, you probably know her on Twitter as @dataandme, will be keynoting at EARL Boston this year. EARL stands for “Effective Applications of the R Language” and it’s an excellent conference that conveys how companies are gaining business value from the R programming language. We attended last year and

# Salesforce.com Forecasting Capabilities
If your organization uses Salesforce.com to track all of your sales leads, contacts, and opportunities, then you’re probably familiar with its forecasting capabilities. As opportunities move through the sales cycle, the probability to close tends to increase. Here’s a chart showing typical winning probabilities for each stage. For example, every lead that comes into the

# Data Intimacy
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s probably time we approach the topic of intimacy. No, not that intimacy. Data intimacy. Recently, we were working on a project to determine the feasibility of developing a data platform for our client. The first pass through the data involved some data clouds and trend spotting across topical

# The Importance of Data Quality
Garbage in, garbage out. That’s a top ten comment from data professionals. Why bother spending time extracting data if you know it wasn’t captured well or organized correctly in the first place? At TCB Analytics, we believe the exercise of working with data is a valuable business process even if the data itself isn’t tested.