Description: This paper describes techniques that can be used to access any specific piece of information in Wikipedia, such as medical information.

Description: Collaborative filtering models drive recommendations provided by Netflix and Amazon. This article uses the same models to explore patients’ medical conditions.

Description: Feature article discussing futurism and a study that contains in-depth descriptions of the Delphi and TIA methods; listings of the rationales and thought processes, the plausible future developments that could influence the values of these four economic variables and the resulting “fan of possibilities” for the values of these variables

Description: A discussion on how the look of charts and graphs can affect comprehension of data.

Description: This article takes the reader on a speculative trip to the not too distant future to explore a hypothetical new life insurance company that has completely reinvented the way it does business, and explores some of the potential benefits to consumers and the company’s stakeholders.

Description: The Possible Role of Convolutional Neural Networks in Mortality Risk Protection

Description: There is a growing amount of “off-balance sheet” talent in the US and Global workforce. This spans from consultants and contractors, to gig workers and the crowd (both curated crowd and open crowd). One such example is Uber and Lyft workers. Insurance companies and the Actuarial profession have started to experiment with platforms such as Kaggle and this will continue to grow and evolve. This article explores these new sources of talent for companies, the implications to the actuarial function, benefits and challenges of the evolving workforce.

Description: A discussion about how many models can address the over fitting issues caused by too many variables by regularization, variable selection is still meaningful.

Description: The artcle looks at the most important features necessary to conduct a meaningful quantitative analysis. The article also discusses how predictive analytics should be used as a tactic to anwer question and not an end in of itself.

Description: Read the December 2018 issue of Predictive Analytics and Futurism published by the Predictive Analytics and Futurism Section.