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  • Why Is Health Care Data So Challenging?
    Why Is Health Care Data So Challenging? Data is the lifeblood of the health care business, giving insight ... basis. Because of the complexity and size of health care data, working with it can be frustrating and challenging ...
    • Authors: David Cusick
    • Date: Feb 2012
    • Publication Name: CompAct
  • Cloud Computing For Actuaries - IaaS, PaaS, SaaS—What Do These Mean And Why Do I Care?
    IaaS, PaaS, SaaS—What Do These Mean And Why Do I Care? This article defines cloud computing and informs ... approaches to this cloud migration and they have direct impact on cost, performance, service levels, and ...
    • Authors: Van Beach
    • Date: Oct 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Dynamic simulation models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
    little impact on algorithm efficiency. We don’t care about the number of lines within a loop nearly as ... cover some basic data structures. There are two primary ways to store data—arrays and linked lists. You ...
    • Date: Mar 2015
    • Publication Name: CompAct
  • Ginsburg, Davenport and Milla to speak at Health Meeting, June 13-15
    Meeting! Ginsburg will offer his take on health care reform and related issues. Milla will give her tips ... Meeting! Ginsburg will offer his take on health care reform and related issues. Milla will give her tips ...
    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: May 2012
    • Publication Name: CompAct
  • Are You Agile?
    Are You Agile? Agile Project Management is an iterative development approach that is popular in ... This session is worth 1.50 CPD credits and the primary competency Strategic Insight & Integration. All ...
    • Authors: Jenna Fariss
    • Date: Mar 2016
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Business intelligence
  • Letter from the Chair
    Letter from the Chair Your assistance is requested to help define the role of the Technology Section. ... the Technology Section and what we see as our primary areas of interest. One such area, in my opinion ...
    • Authors: Yonasan Schwartz
    • Date: Mar 2016
    • Publication Name: CompAct
  • Technology in the News
    Technology in the News This article references articles discussing technology in the modern ... shift to real-time management information. The primary benefit is that actionable information is now easily ...

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    • Authors: Tim Roar
    • Date: Jul 2006
    • Publication Name: CompAct
  • Improvement of Core Financial Processes with Data Science
    Improvement of Core Financial Processes with Data Science Interesting ways for financial ... range of analytics. Consider these entries: A very direct translation of the bag-of-words model to accounts ...
    • Date: Nov 2016
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Predictive Analytics; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • End-User Computing: Solving the Problem
    to research and remediate issues. Reduction in direct identified losses due to errors. Reduction in testing ... that are organizationally entrenched but serve no direct business need, or that can be replaced by existing ...
    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Apr 2013
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • Top Six Danger List
    Top Six Danger List Good documentation (and even bad) takes work. It is not fun work. It is ... process to minimize the user input risk. 2. The primary strategy is to use spreadsheets for their intended ...
    • Authors: David Kester
    • Date: Mar 2015
    • Publication Name: CompAct