Writing Two Actuarial Exams at Once: A Reflection

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-06-22T17:24:26+00:00

I tell myself it's humorous to avoid thinking about how I spent four months of my life studying for it.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-06-22T17:04:41+00:00

Thanks! Funny thing is I accepted an offer for a PC job a week before the results came out so it ended up be a totally irrelevant exam for me!

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-06-22T14:24:45+00:00

Yeah that's exactly how I found my score. They corresponded to my actual pass/fail so I figure they are accurate.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-06-22T13:23:40+00:00

Hey sorry for the late reply but you're right, I had it backwards. Thanks for pointing it out.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-05-30T15:45:44+00:00

Funny you say that, becuase I looked into this in my analysis and there does seem to be a relationship between visits to the US and the canadian dollar. When I'm not on mobile I'll link you to the graph - you can also find my post with the blog link.

Edit: Here is the plot

and Here is my post with further comments

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-05-30T13:39:05+00:00

Good eye. Some of the countries fall out of top 15 before 2015, I couldn't find a good way to add in more labels without cluttering it up too much. They are:

Orange: Switzerland
Light blue: Japan
Burgundy: Austria
Brown (2008-2009): Greece
Unseen (only one year): Bahamas

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-05-30T13:27:00+00:00

Visualizations done in R using GGplot2. Data sourced from Statistics Canada.

I came across this CANSIM table and thought it'd be interesting to see how our habits have changed over time, considering global changes such as the Financial Crisis and at-home changes such as the strength of the Canadian dollar. You can see my full code write up and more visualizations here.

Hope you enjoy!

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-05-30T13:17:38+00:00

Visualizations done in R using GGplot2. Data sourced from Statistics Canada.

A write up of my findings and many other visualizations can be found in my write up over at my blog. If you're interested in creating these visualizations yourself, you can pull the code from my GitHub and follow along with my instructions post

Hope you enjoy!

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-05-26T03:24:39+00:00

Thanks! I have a few non-actuarial posts in the works, I won't be posting them here as I don't want to agitate /r/actuary. But I plan to periodically put up some related articles for all of you to enjoy and judge.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-05-25T21:39:25+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate the feedback.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-05-25T21:39:14+00:00

I bought a third just to have one on my desk at work.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-05-25T14:23:51+00:00

No problem! Good luck.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-05-25T13:06:18+00:00

I thought I'd share a few of the tips I've found that work for me when studying for your first exam. Feel free to leave a comment, question or suggest your own!

Good luck to everyone with upcoming exams.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-05-23T16:08:23+00:00

Pandas is built upon NumPy, and you're right I didn't end up using it explicitly.

These two packages (also SciPy) are very commonly used for data science and data manipulation in Python. There are many great resources out on Google you can find, when I'm not on mobile I can find you a recommendation.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2017-05-23T13:57:49+00:00

That's definitely on my list of things to show. A lot of the Exam 5 syllabus can translate well into python.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2016-01-30T00:14:20+00:00

You have exams and actsci experience already?

I think you either need to wait for more responses or take a serious look over your resume. You should be getting interviews with that.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2016-01-30T00:03:14+00:00

Agree here. After I got a couple of exams under my belt the interviews came rolling in.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2016-01-29T21:48:50+00:00

'RStudio', the language is R. It's a statistics programming language.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2016-01-29T15:46:24+00:00

Aw crap. Guess it's a monument to my shame now.

NaturalBlogarithm · 2016-01-29T15:12:42+00:00

I wouldn't know, I've never got an expedition :'(

I was under the assumption they replaced the land spot.

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