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

Description: Interview with John Houston, Advanced Analytics and Predictive Modeling practice leader at Deloitte.

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

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

Description: This is the second article in a two-part series examining the potential value to companies of implementing a company profitability and risk dashboard.

Description: The article explores the possibility of using the emerging technology for life insurers to build a monitor system for better risk and profitability management.

Description: Many life and health insurers are beginning to use Predictive Analytics (PA) for a variety of purposes. This article addresses the unique challenges and potential disruption PA brings to the risk manager, as well as the opportunities.

Description: Many life and health insurers are beginning to use Predictive Analytics (PA) for a variety of purposes. This article addresses the unique challenges and potential disruption PA brings to the risk manager, as well as the opportunities.

Description: This addresses the changing role for property-casualty actuaries as companies are looking toward actuaries to play a bigger role in moving the business forward.

Description: The presenters will share information about: -Insights into causes of death through the use of predictive models, based on a reinsured U.S. life portfolio, using logistic regression models to understand three main causes of death: cancer, heart and external causes; -Opioid abuse is a widespread phenomenon with drug-related mortality rates rising steeply in the U.S. over the past two decades. But what does the most recent data tell U.S. about the outlook for Opioid-related mortality?; -'Deaths of despair' have been publicized as a cause for the poor performance of U.S. mortality in recent years. The presenters will be looking at the different causes under this label, their evolution and explore the drivers behind them.