R Corner – Ring of Fire <p>In this article, we will look at how to download worldwide earthquake data and load it into R and use the “maps” and “mapproj” packages to display the Ring of Fire ...

Spreadsheets—the Aging Friend of Actuaries Is the Excel spreadsheet an actuary’s best friend? It appears that the life and pension industry is meandering blindly into a world of endless ...

The R Corner In the prior article, we examined the use of the “cut” function inside of R. This column we examine the “with” command. ; by Steven Craighead   In the prior article, we examined ...

Can Your Reports Dance? We create a lot of financial reports, and at the same time we probably receive even more financial reports. Most financial reports are full of numbers. … As a result, ...

Actuarial Monopoly – bringing Markov home to the family In this article, rather than building financial models for project and investment analysis in his day job as an associate at Corality ...

Speaking “Data” Properly This article is the third in a four-part series about eliminating the confusion with using data terminology. ; Part 3: Database Management by Dan Rachlis   Data ...