October 2012

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  • Apps For Actuaries: We Have Winners!

    Congratulations to the three winners of the SOA Technology Section’s Apps for Actuaries contest!
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  • Letter From The Chair

    It’s been an active year for the Technology Section. We sponsored a variety of sessions at actuarial meetings throughout the year and also offered several webcasts.
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  • Letter From The Editors

    Actuaries are caught in a perfect storm. Since the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, actuaries have had to deliver more information to senior management and at the same time, they have had to comply with new guidelines/standards.
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  • Table It in Microsoft Excel

    Microsoft Excel Tables are excellent for manipulating data. This article will explain some techniques that have proved useful in my personal experience.
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  • Excel as an IT System

    I was planning on writing this article about six months ago, and never got around to it. Then, I read an article recently published in the May 2012 edition of CompAct entitled “Spreadsheets—the Aging Friend of Actuaries.”
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  • The (absolutely) Best App of all time

    <p>Let’s see if we not only can find a good app, not even just a great app—how about finding the best app of all time? That’s the goal of this article. </p>
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  • R Corner – Ring of Fire

    <p>In this article, we will look at how to download worldwide earthquake data and load it into R and use the “maps” and “mapproj” packages to display the Ring of Fire using the earthquakes data.</p>
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  • Actuaries – Data Scientists for Insurance

    Analytical systems were originally described as being able to turn data into information. This was soon extended to turning data to information and information to knowledge.
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  • Articles Needed for Compact Newsletter

    Your help and participation are needed: Articles, book reviews and other information on technology useful to actuaries are needed!
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  • Non-Endorsement

    As editors, we face the decision each quarter of accepting or declining authors' submitted articles, particularly those that describe the solutions their companies' software products offer to actuaries.
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