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  • Table It in Microsoft Excel
    Table It in Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel Tables are excellent for manipulating data. This article ... convince you of the advantages of referring to table data by column name. Instead of referring to data ...
    • Authors: Paul Margus
    • Date: Oct 2012
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Joint-And-Survivor Annuities for the Uniformed Services: Legislative History and Application of Univac to Actuarial Problems Involved
    Joint-And-Survivor Annuities for the Uniformed Services: Legislative History and Application ... UNIVAC. Antiselection;Computer science;Mortality rates=Mortality tables=Death rates ;Payout annuities;Public ...

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    • Authors: Edward H Friend, Robert J Myers, Frances E. Holberton
    • Date: Apr 1954
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Annuities>Payout annuities; Pensions & Retirement>Pension legislation and regulation; Pensions & Retirement>Plan design; Pensions & Retirement>Public sector plans; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • GPUs: How We Went From Zombie Blood Splatter To Financial Projections
    benchmarks of insurance projections using Oliver Wyman’s ATLAS software platform. What Is A GPU? A GPU is effectively ... CPU cores. In order to utilize the GPU your program(s) must be (re)written to do so. Interaction Between ...
    • Authors: Chris Stiefeling
    • Date: Oct 2013
    • Competency: Leadership>Thought leadership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Letter From The Editors
    Tables can effectively manage data in his article “Table it in Microsoft Excel” and even shares his example ... Don’t miss Steve Craighead’s article about how to create a Ring of Fire using R’s spatial modeling package ...
    • Authors: Andrew Chan, Richard Junker
    • Date: Oct 2012
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Health Watch, Issue 79, December 2015, Health Watch
    Health Watch, Issue 79, December 2015, Health Watch Health Watch, Issue 79, ... Research;Cause-of-death mortality;Disability;Presenteeism;Absenteeism;Smoking and mortality;health care reform;actuarial ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Dec 2015
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Leadership>Influence; Professional Values>Ethical standards; Relationship Management>Team leadership; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Disability; Health & Disability>Critical illness insurance; Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Health & Disability>Health risks; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Regression analysis; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • Letter from the Editors
    upon a “bag-of-words” model. The example from Arthur’s illustration is rooted in the finance discipline, ... Craighead relates the applicability of PPR to mortality tables and principle-based reserves. Paul Ramirez ...
    • Authors: Mark D Africa, Paul Ramirez
    • Date: Nov 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Business intelligence; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Data warehousing
  • Abstractions & Working Effectively Alongside Artificial Intelligence
    language (a language whose syntax consists of 0’s and 1’s). In software development, one can identify ... the formula for a European call on an underlying S with strike K in the generalized Black-Scholes5 ...

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    • Authors: Dodzi Attimu, Bryon Robidoux
    • Date: Dec 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Why Actuaries Should Start Paying Attention to Python
    commanded by astronaut John Glenn into orbit. IBM’s FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) programming language ... tailored for specific purposes, such as Facebook’s “React” for web programming or R for statistical analysis ...
    • Authors: Andrew Webster
    • Date: Aug 2018
    • Competency: Leadership>Change management; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Innovators & Entrepreneurs
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Business intelligence; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Letter From The Chair
    Letter From The Chair It’s been an active year for the Technology Section. We sponsored a variety of ... offered several webcasts. ; By J. Eddie Smith, IV It’s been an active year for the Technology Section. We ...
    • Authors: John Smith
    • Date: Oct 2012
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Applying FinTech and IT Practices to Building Actuarial Models
    your calculation engine. Adding or expanding a table or adding a new switch should require no coding ... compute mortality for every benefit on a policy, it might be much more efficient to compute mortality once ...

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    • Authors: Michael Sullivan, Igor Nikitin
    • Date: Nov 2018
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Technology & Applications>Computer science