Description: A simple blog about things that rarely relate to actuarial science.
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About Contact Tools Blog The Nomad Actuary A little blog about things that rarely relate to actuarial science Welcome. This website is just a hobby project. I have been meaning to create a blog for some time now, and finally decided to just go ahead and do it (with a little help from quarantine due to Covid-19). While of course the hope is that someone , somewhere , will find some of this interesting, the expected value for the count of readers is close to 0. And I'm fine with that.
For the wandering souls that do find their way here, below is a quick checklist that should help a) prevent you from wasting your time, and simultaneously b) drive the average readership towards the expected value I predicted above (I like to be right, sometimes even at my own expense).
If I had to come up with an aim, or loosely overarching goal for this blog, I would simply say that it's to share some of the interesting things that are possible with the use of technology, with a focus on programming, data maniuplation and visualization, and yes, of course, machine learning (🚨 buzz word alert). I hold a strong belief that many of these skills are still undertaught both at school and on-the-job (sorry, Excel alone just doesn't cut it anymore), to professionals that would benefit greatly fr