Spring Zurich Actuarial Society Event

Data Visualisation as a Powerful Means of Communication - Florian Gomez (Data Visualisation Working Party)

Data Visualisation helps to communicate information clearly and effectively through graphical means. This talk will showcase some visualisations that the working party has found useful for common actuarial situations. The working party’s approach has been to outline problems (eg, viewing an analysis of change) and give suggested solutions (eg, use a waterfall chart because…). Commentary and critique of each problem-solution is given along with the how-to practical implementation. All the examples presented in the talk are viewable on a publicly available blog that the working party are maintaining.

The Data Visualisation Working Party was established in 2017 with the aim to raise the awareness of visualisations in the actuarial field. It is currently chaired by Rob Black from Standard Life.

Florian Gomez holds a PhD in physics from ETH Zurich and joined PartnerRe in 2015. He currently works as a Risk and Capital Modeller in the Life & Health department.

A Bid too Far, The Inadequacy of Actuariality - Robert Prochnow, FSA

Robert Prochnow, FSA, who's spent his career in the knife fighting that is health insurance, will be lead facilitator of a competitive bidding game. The exercise will be to split into three teams of actuaries applying different actuarial techniques to try to set the best prices for different bids. The results will be found and how to improve discussed. There will be real competition, so keep your pencils sharp!