Description: Part of this article is a request for good and bad spreadsheet models in order to build up a repository. The other part of this article deals with some of the worst formulas found within Excel spreadsheet.

Description: This article discusses how to locate, download and install R.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington, DC Annual Meeting examine corporate software applications in terms of at least three tiers, and how actuarial applications have blurred the distinction among these tiers.

Description: Provides useful references for learning and using Visual Basic NET.

Description: This article discusses the shortfalls present in most retirement planning software. Some of these come from the design of the software and some from unsophisticated use of it. In any case, the resources needed for retirement are often understated.

Description: This article provides a pre-release summary of Microsoft Windows Vista personal computer operating system.

Description: Machine learning models have many practical applications in the world of insurance. These applications are well documented and most actuaries, at least at a high level, are familiar with these concepts. The presenters will take this one step further and provide an introduction to the theoretical formulas and real-world considerations that make machine learning models possible.

Description: Update on the SOA International experience study. The SOA has developed a new “tool” using Microsoft Access/Excel for international actuaries to conduct mortality and persistency studies in conjunction with the SOA’s international experience study initiative.

Description: Using the copula package in the R computing language for ERM modeling.

Description: The article discusses the use of R in prototyping automation procedures. It offers general pros and cons for R and walks through a specific use case, which involves scraping and summarizing data stored in Microsoft Excel.