Description: Feature article discussing preferred methods of communication.

Description: This web page contains links to the following articles of interest to actuaries: 1. A July 9, 2011 New York Times editorial about recent studies suggesting that antidepressants aren’t effective after all, and 2. A March 10, 2011 Time Magazine article by Joel Stein titled, 'Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You.'

Description: This article discusses the management and testing of spreadsheets.

Description: Perhaps readers will send us additions to the following short list of events in the mathematical world associated with years ending in the digits 82. These are taken from IBM’s history chart, “Men of Modern Mathematics.”

Description: This is the third and final article in a series on the Power BI suite of tools available from Microsoft. A high level look at its analytical capabilities.

Description: Discusses the graphics capabilities of the computer language R.

Description: Discusses ways to minimize errors in Excel spreadsheets used for risk modeling.

Description: Members of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Solvency Committee have put together an acronym reference chart. This handy guide can be folded up to fit in your wallet and quickly reviewed so you can fearlessly enter an elevator.

Description: Many executives are talking about predictive analytics uses in health insurance.

Description: Mindful data visualizations show the end users the end way in how to analyze and interpret your data. More importantly, they can then use this data they see to drive decisions and modeling going forward.