Designed by actuaries, 10Life became the #1 mobile app for insurance search terms in Hong Kong last year. Director Iris Lun will present at the Joint Regional Seminar at the Actuaries Institute next month.
The highly anticipated 2019 Actuarial Hackathon Showcase wrapped up recently. Emily Law, Project Manager of this year's Hackathon Committee, shares some of the highlights from the night!
One of the biggest challenges in adopting machine learning models is their lack of interpretability. It is important for actuaries to be able to understand what models are doing. This article discusses the popular SHAP approach as a superior method of calculating feature importance.
While the 2019 Australian Federal Election can be a very serious matter, the young Actuaries Data Analytics Group (yDAWG) decided to have a bit of fun. Using a Markov Chain generator and existing library of historical tweets, they explain how synthetic tweets can impersonate our political leaders.
