Description: Please! Submit a modeling-related article to us! We're always looking for new authors!

Description: A look at cognitive biases, which are common tendencies of people when thinking about issues and when making decisions. Confirmation bias and sunk cost effects.

Description: This article is about errors that occur in spreadsheets.

Description: 2021 US Population Provisional Data Mortality report, Data and Methodology Spreadsheet.

Description: The author recommends the use of "minimally destructive scenarios" as part of an ORSA process, in order to deal with cognitive bias that can occur in risk decision-making. Part of the essay collection "Risk Metrics for Decision Making and ORSA"

Description: A review of the business etiquette book Miss Manners Minds Your Business by Judith Martin (aka Miss Manners) and Nicholas Ivor Martin. The book explores the difference between business and social manners, and why paying attention to that difference is important.

Description: Looking at some specific data visualization types that may be less familiar to actuaries, with examples. All are implementable in Excel.

Description: A listing of the 2016 modeling-related sessions and webcasts from the SOA. Most meeting session recordings are available for free to SOA members.

Description: The author reviews a book the debunks some of the hype we read about using quantity at the expense of quality. She also points out some unrealistic outcomes when data scientists lack business knowledge.