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Kaggle Competition – Modelling of claims costs and a deep dive into the winning solution

Earlier this year, the Actuaries Institute, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the Singapore Actuarial Society hosted a competition on Kaggle to promote development of data analytics talent, especially amongst actuaries. This article discusses the winning solution for the competition. In particular, how the winner derived features, built and evaluated the model which led to the best performance.

by Jin Cui

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Actuaries at Play

Why packages are the new black

Hugh Miller comments on the plethora of packages available to data scientists, and its implications for businesses.

by Hugh Miller

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Predicting mortality around Australia – Actuaries take home Kaggle Cup

Oliver Chambers and Andrew Bird made the winning submission for the Actuaries Institute's inaugural Kaggle competition in 2015. Here, they explain how they explored different features in the data to predict mortality at locations around Australia.

by Andrew Bird

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Kaggle Competition – Modelling of claims costs and a deep dive into the winning solution

Highlights

Why packages are the new black

Predicting mortality around Australia – Actuaries take home Kaggle Cup

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