Highlights from TCB Analytics
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 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.
Tanya Cashorali of TCB Analytics is featured in the latest episode of DataFramed, a podcast by DataCamp that examines critical topics and issues within the data science community. During the episode, the interview touches on Tanya’s experiences starting a data consultancy, working in data science, rapid prototyping, and more.
Across every industry and vertical, organizations are increasingly overwhelmed with data. Recognizing its potential value, nearly every company is tracking and storing data in some form. However, you can’t easily explore raw data and extract meaningful conclusions; there’s just too much of it and the format isn’t always readily consumable. That’s where data visualization comes in.
During the Data Science Plenary Panel at Bio-IT World 2018, Tanya Cashorali of TCB Analytics highlighted some innovative use cases for data science in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. These use cases span drug manufacturing, clinical enrollment, and bioinformatics. For an example of one use case, here’s an in-depth look at how we helped Biogen.
We are excited to attend our first RStudio conference in San Diego, CA this year. There is an all-star line-up of speakers including:
- JD Long – “The unreasonable effectiveness of empathy”
- Mara Averick – “Phrasing: communicating data science through tweets, gifs, and classic misdirection”
- David Robinson – “Teach the Tidyverse to beginners”
TCB Analytics Founder, Tanya Cashorali, will be presenting at EARL Boston 2017 on “When and Why to Use Shiny for Commercial Applications.” She will be talking about building data products and at TCB Analytics, we always start with the question(s) we want to answer first. We then immediately begin to identify relevant data sets that can assist.
TCB Analytics founder, Tanya Cashorali, recently spoke at the Open Data Science Conference in Boston this year. She has long advocated for prototyping of data products before building full-fledged applications as all of the requirements are rarely known in advance. Read more below and watch the full talk as well! Companies are becoming more aware of the advantages of this approach.
The City of Boston recently hosted the Analyze Boston Open Data Challenge to celebrate the launch of its new open data portal. TCB Analytics competed in the event in the “Reducing Boston’s Carbon Footprint” Track. We leveraged a rapid prototyping and development technique and ultimately produced a Shiny dashboard that enabled scenario planning as well.
We recently published a blog post on key takeaways from OpenVisConf 2017. They just released all of the speaker videos as well as the talk transcripts. Since Julia Silge gave such an awesome talk on using tidytext to mine text data, specifically from Jane Austen novels, we thought this would be a perfect opportunity to analyze the transcripts.