Description: Learn to utilize one of the most requested skills in the actuarial science job advertisements. During this webcast, discover the benefits of programming, how to identify and explain complex technical information and ways to create stunning visuals with ggplot2, which exceed the capabilities of Excel. With your webcast attendance, you will receive a document with detailed explanations, codes and underlying data. Enjoy exercises which allow the creation of fully reproducible solutions. This means an easy reproduction of all presented plots learned during this webcast. Register and take the next step toward building enticing visualizations.

Description: CMS has required hospitals to publish their chargemaster rates, cash discounts and negotiated rates as of January 1, 2021. Our panel is comprised of a data strategist, an executive from a large hospital system and an actuary.

Description: Come gain insights into the techniques used in Machine Learning and its applications. You'll discover the key technological advances in recent years which were behind and ultimately facilitated the breakthroughs including ChatGPT/GenAI. It's time to uncover real-world use cases where AI models and their transformative impact on our lives.

Description: Nathan Pohle and Darryl Wagner believe actuaries can benefit from new technologies in predictive analytics and life insurance.

Description: Discuss various analytics and use cases using payer published reimbursement contract data under federal mandate of Transparency in Coverage. These contract rates are publicly available in machine readable format (MRF) starting July 1, 2022, and refreshed monthly. By attending the session, you will have a better understanding of the state-of-art development and analytics using MRF data, including the technologies used to extract and analyze huge MRF files, validation and limitations of published rates, and their use cases.

Description: This session will examine bias from a social science perspective. It will discuss the three types of systemic biases using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) model. The NIST model details the three types as historical bias, societal bias, and institutionalbias. The session will also provide several examples of each type to provide a framework for identifying the social structure of bias.

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global economy at a level never imagined. The economic fallout has been catastrophic. Record high unemployment, staggering revenue loss, bankruptcy and an uncertain future have businesses—and consumers—searching for a beacon of hope. In the quest for a lifeline, actuarial teams are quickly being thrust into the spotlight

Description: As the insurance industry continues to evolve due to a pandemic and rapidly changing economic and regulatory conditions, the role of data scientists and actuaries has become increasingly important. In an interview with the Atidot data science and actuarial team, we discuss what it is like to work at an InsurTech, how data scientists and actuaries can collaborate, and look at some concrete technical examples of where the innovation is having an impact. This article explores what collaboration can look like and how the role of data science and actuary may evolve in the InsurTech industry in the future.

Description: This article discusses the publication of the “Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment”