Data Science

The actuarial profession needs to pay more attention to social risk, says Chris Sutton

Chris Martin and Steve Bale discuss how actuaries modelled the impacts of critical care demand and long COVID during the pandemic

Sarah MacDonnell and the Machine Learning in Reserving Working Party discuss how – and why – general insurance reserving actuaries should get on board with machine learning

Sudaman Thoppan Mohanchandralal talks to Yiannis Parizas and Phanis Ioannou about how organisations can adopt a data culture, and why it is so important

Aled Jones sets out the issues of fairness posed by the environmental crisis, and why actuaries are well placed to help in this area

Karol Gawlowksi, Christian Richard and Dylan Liew show how Shapley values can be used to make opaque models more transparent

Evan Tanotogono discusses how a digital approach to product development could help drive up penetration in low-coverage markets such as Indonesia

Stephen Carlin explains the concept of decision science, and how its use can benefit actuaries

Kit Yates tells Ruolin Wang why making mathematics more accessible to the public is so important – especially in light of COVID-19 and the climate challenge

By embracing modern data science tools and techniques, actuaries can operate more efficiently, increase value and better manage risk, say Valerie du Preez, Xavier Maréchal and Anja Friedrich