Description: This article summarizes a method for measuring the credibility of a prediction from a logistic generalized linear model (GLM).

Description: An introduction to creating Shiny web applications, with sample code available to reproduce the interactive application displayed in screenshots in the article.

Description: This article shares our experience of using the cloud to do large-scale parallel processing and discusses some background regarding the cloud.

Description: This is a summary of the benefits of attending the 2019 Predictive Analytics Symposium.

Description: This is an Editorial describing the need for actuaries to upgrade skills or risk minimization from artificial intelligence.

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.

Description: Editorial for the May 2019 issue of Predictive Analytics & Futurism newsletter.

Description: Chairperson's column for the July 2016 issue of Predictive Analytics & Futurism.

Description: Using the Cox proportional Hazards Model to improve underwriting debits and credits.

Description: Each month in the media we learn of another set of jobs being automated into oblivion or replaced by disruptive technologies. We see taxi drivers replaced by Uber and Lyft now, and soon by self-driving cars. An Oxford University study of 702 occupations showed insurance underwriters in 698th place, with a 99% probability of computerization. They were safer for obsolescence by automation than only four occupations such as hand sewers and telemarketers.