Bordeleau-Tassile Wins the CAS 2023 Hacktuary Challenge
The Casualty Actuarial Society is pleased to announce that Michaël Bordeleau-Tassile, FCAS, is the winner of the 2023 Hacktuary Challenge.
His entry, PropertInsight provides at-a-glance overviews of property characteristics and hazards as well as helpful insights for consumers.
Insurers can also benefit from the catalog of insurance-related open data sets, which can be used to improve risk assessments, identify new opportunities, and deploy advanced analytics.
Showcasing Montréal, Canada as its use location, the app displays property risk factors ranging from environmental and climate characteristics to proximity to fire stations. Factors of special interest to actuaries include a property's age and value along with nearby road conditions and closeness to businesses including drinking establishments.
The CAS awarded Bordeleau-Tassile $15,000 for his winning submission. "The entry is a standout illustration of how actuaries can apply technology to demonstrate risk potential to better inform consumers," said Morgan Bugbee, vice president of research for the CAS.
The CAS began its Hacktuary Contest in 2022 to showcase the actuarial and technical skills necessary for developing novel risk engineering solutions. Entrants are challenged to create an actuarially grounded end-user application that offers consumer-relevant risk management solutions.
Winners are also required to post the app's code on the publicly available CAS GitHub site, a cloud-based, public platform for collaborative code development. The code for PropertInsight is located at https://github.com/ResearchActuary/PropertInsight. (GitHub code encompasses more than just software. By writing in a format such as RMarkdown, users can also share research papers, and other human-readable items.)
Plans for the 2024 Hacktuary Contest are coming soon. For questions regarding the Hacktuary Challenge or GitHub at the CAS, please write Research Manager Annmarie Geddes Baribeau at: abaribeau@casact.org.
