Description: Up until recent past, the artificial intelligence portion of data science was looked upon cautiously due to its history of booms and flops . In the latest stream of events, major improvements have taken place in this field and now deep learning, the new leading front for Artificial Intelligence, presents a promising prospect for overcoming problems of big data.

Description: This article goes through some basic data exploration techniques to show how different approaches look.

Description: An autobiographical journey from actuarial student to data scientist.

Description: A summary of a survey the Society of Actuaries recently conducted of health payer and provider executives to glean insights into predictive analytics trends.

Description: An exploration of moving predictive modeling capabilities in R to real time operations.

Description: The new chairperson of the SOA's PAF section, Anders Larson, discusses the variety of ways in which the section helps actuaries learn about PAF.

Description: A discussion on how to use data visualization for model controls.

Description: A review of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization courses with special emphasis on how they may be useful to actuaries.

Description: This article describes how different types of regression models used for fund modeling can affect the variable annuity's risk exposure report and attribution report.

Description: Summary of the reasons behind our section name change; and a short description of each of the articles in this issue.