Description: In 2020 the Actuarial Innovation and Technology Steering Committee held a data visualization contest. Entries showed a variety of strengths including smart use of tools, user-friendly dashboards, and displays paired with actuarial analysis that can lead an end-user through a process of discovery. In this webcast a data visualization expert will review the winning entries with the contestants. We'll discuss how the different strengths of these entries can be combined to create a powerful tool for communication and understanding.

Description: This article discusses best practices in designing spreadsheets with the end-user in mind.

Description: Feature article about the appropriate use of spreadsheets.

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

Description: Report on the EuSpRIG Annual Meeting last July in Paris, which focused on modeling.

Description: Brief summaries of two sessions at the 2010 SOA Annual Meeting: Joint Technology and Entrepreneurial Actuaries sections' reception and The Actuarial Technology Perfect Storm.

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: Illustrates, and therefore discourages the use of, bad Microsoft Excel formulas.

Description: Discusses useful resources for actuaries available on the Web.

Description: This article reviews Spreadsheet Check and Control, a book that provides techniques to avoid errors in spreadsheets and to check existing spreadsheets for errors.