Description: Feature article about the use of approximations.

Description: Using Johns Hopkins data around the COVID-19 pandemic, this article explores the interaction between selecting a metric and the different ways of visualizing it.

Description: Many executives travel now with only a single mobile device. These tools generally do not replace your desktop or even your laptop look at them as extending the reach of your physical office. Tips for using these mobile devises are given in this article.

Description: Book review of 'Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook'

Description: Feature article discussing image recognition and how it may affect actuaries in the future.

Description: This article discusses the publication of the “Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment”

Description: This article is the second in a four-part series about eliminating the confusion with using data terminology. Part one discussed data governance. This second part will discuss data analysis and database management.

Description: This is a summary of the biography of Charles Babbage, 1791-1871, much of whose life was devoted to inventing and constructing machines to free actuaries and other sufferers from the drudgery of repetitive arithmetic.

Description: In this article, we talk to Lei Rao-Knight, FSA, Vice President and Actuary at Prudential Financial. Lei discusses her model development experience in the Modeling Center of Excellence.

Description: Big data, predictive analytics, machine learning and AI will likely transform the insurance market and the actuarial profession. The actuarial profession is seeing changes many markets, including health and property and casualty. This article describes these trends and provides an introduction into what companies and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) are doing to adapt and capitalize on these trends.