About This Event
Is the actuarial profession changing from using spreadsheets to using programming languages like R or Python? Hear some of your colleagues explain why they have switched! Spreadsheets keep the data in front of the user with the calculations hidden in the background. Traditional coding using R or Python keep the calculations in front of the user, with the data hidden in the background. See some real examples on how typical actuarial tasks are being transformed into R and Python.
Key Messages
Examples on how typical actuarial tasks are being transformed into R and Python.
Learning Objectives
Identify benefits of code compared to spreadsheets.
Registration information
This webinar is complimentary to non-North American audiences who are part of the CAS and the CIA. The webinar will be conducted over GotoWebinar. The link to enter the webinar will be sent two hours prior to the webinar taking place. Please make sure to test your system.
Liam McGrath, Willis Towers Watson
Liam is an Associate Director at WTW with over nine years of experience in insurance. His focus is helping insurers build predictive modeling and machine learning solutions for pricing, underwriting, and claim functions. Liam has presented in various insurance forums on topics including natural language processing and model interpretability. He is an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS) and a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU). Liam received a BS degree in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Kevin Dalton, The Cincinnati Insurance Company
Kevin Dalton is a Senior Data Scientist at The Cincinnati Insurance Companies, where he focuses on pricing, classification and geospatial models for the company’s personal lines offerings. An economist by training, his interests include all things statistical computing and building and implementing models for actuaries.
Patrick Yu, Kaiser Permanente
Patrick Yu is a Senior Director at Kaiser Permanente, where he currently leads the Actuarial & Analytics team within the Corporate Risk Management department. His current responsibilities include overseeing all pricing, reserving, capital modeling, and other insurance-related analysis for all of KP’s P&C risks across its three captive insurers. Patrick is a Fellow of both the Casualty Actuarial Society and the Society of Actuaries. He obtained bachelors’ degrees in both Business Administration and Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Patrick in the San Francisco area with his wife and two children. In his
