Tanya Cashorali recently sat down for an up-close-and-personal interview with an online magazine, The Editorial, which interviews visionaries on emerging ideas around us. She discusses everything from running her consultancy, to paying back student loans, to teaching, and to finally having freedom from a 9-to-5 and helping others accomplish the same. Read the full interview […]
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Startup Institute Announces Partnership with Western New England University and TCB Analytics to Deliver Data Science Bootcamp
We’re excited to announce a partnership with Startup Institute and Western New England University that will provide a 10-week Intro to Data Science course. We initially launched this course in Boston, MA and had a great experience, so we’re excited to bring that same success to western Massachusetts. Jasmine Dumas, notable R package writer, conference […]
Founder of TCB Analytics, Tanya Cashorali, to Speak at Strata NYC 2017 on How to Hire Data Scientists
Strata NYC 2017 is just around the corner and Tanya Cashorali of TCB Analytics will be speaking in a session entitled “How to hire and test for data skills: A one-size-fits-all interview kit”. Based heavily on this blog post about How to Hire and Test for Data Skills, she will share her personal anecdotes and […]
Tanya Cashorali Presents at ODSC 2017 on Rapid Prototyping of Data Products Using Shiny
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 […]
Mara Averick to Keynote Boston EARL 2017
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 […]
TCB Analytics Wins Analyze Boston Challenge with Shiny Dashboard
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 […]
Tidytext Analysis of the 2017 OpenVisConf Talk Transcripts
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 from […]
Data Visualization in Virtual Reality: Useless Hype or Practical Application?
Virtual reality finally broke into the commercial market in 2016 with consumer releases of Facebook’s Oculus Rift and Valve’s HTC Vive. Virtual reality is mainly a form of entertainment that provides immersive experiences such as sitting courtside at an NBA game, shooting aliens with your hands, starring in a horror movie and more. However, there […]
2016 Lessons Learned in Data Analytics
Since we launched TCB Analytics a little over one year ago, we’ve engaged in data analytics projects for clients across various industries. Some projects were focused on data visualization and reporting, others on data scraping and machine learning, and all of the projects required initial data cleansing. The New Year gives us a chance to […]
Update Google Sheets via R Automatically
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 […]