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  • Why Actuaries Should Start Paying Attention to Python
    Why Actuaries Should Start Paying Attention to Python By Andrew M. WebsterA discussion on ... hundreds of flat files each week containing health care claims data. We use Python to transfer and aggregate ...
    • 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
  • Horses for Courses
    value crediting, dividend payments, or mode of care benefit maximums); • Guarantees such as minimum ... granularity and detail of calculations also has a direct relationship with the time required to complete ...

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    • Authors: Van Beach
    • Date: Oct 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Leadership>Change management; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Asset modeling; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Deterministic models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Dynamic simulation models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Value at risk - Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Business intelligence; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Data warehousing; Technology & Applications>Software
  • CompAct - April 2017 Issue 55
    the data you need. Secondly, by establishing a direct connection that can be scheduled to refresh, ... unlist((strsplit(line, “,”))) # Extract the columns we care about product <- line[2] premium <- as.numeric(line[3]) ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Apr 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Business intelligence; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • A NEAT Approach to Neural Network Structure
    Kenneth Stanley of Houston University is the primary researcher behind NEAT and many of its adap- tations ... testing or actually in use. ES HyperNEAT NEAT’s primary feature is that we no longer have to think about ...

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    • Authors: Jeff T Heaton
    • Date: Dec 2013
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Business intelligence; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • Effective Communication of Stochastic Model Results
    value crediting, dividend payments, or mode of care benefit maximums); • Guarantees such as minimum ... granularity and detail of calculations also has a direct relationship with the time required to complete ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Oct 2017
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • Feature Importance in Supervised Training
    orithm presented in the previous section. The primary  To successfully perturb a feature for the input- ... algorithm presented in the previous section. The primary difference is that two columns will be perturbed ...

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    • Authors: Jeff T Heaton
    • Date: Apr 2018
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • October 2015 CompAct
    October 2015 CompAct October 2015 issue of CompAct, the technology section&#39;s member ... column. It works. The steps below detail these primary tasks: (1) create and name a two-dimensional range; ...

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    • Date: Oct 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Business intelligence; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software