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. […]
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Linear Programming for an NFL Daily Fantasy Optimizer
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 […]
TCB Founder Featured in DataFramed Podcast
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. Kicking off a Career in Data […]
Automate the Updating of Tableau Dashboards using R
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 […]