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Oct 11, 2021

Host Anders Larson, FSA, MAAA, is joined by Shea Parkes FSA, MAAA, to discuss deploying predictive models into production via web APIs. The use of web APIs for delivering predictive models has grown a lot over the last decade. In the fourth episode of this series, we discuss what a web API is, why they are useful, and...


Aug 19, 2021

Host Anders Larson, FSA, MAAA, is joined by Ben Wyatt, a security and compliance manager at Milliman, to discuss considerations around data security in the cloud. Ben and Anders discuss a variety of real and perceived risks related to data access and storage in the cloud, such as HIPAA compliance, performance on...


Apr 30, 2021

Join hosts Anders Larson, FSA, MAAA, and Shea Parkes, FSA, MAAA, for the second in a series of podcasts focused on machine learning in the cloud. This episode focuses on some specific Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Machine Learning offerings in Azure. These offerings are used as examples and we discuss some general pros...


Feb 17, 2021

Rahul Nawab and Karl Canty from EXL Services join host Anders Larson, FSA, MAAA, to discuss the importance of data transformation for organizations to yield the benefits of modern machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. They introduce the conceptual framework of talent, process, and technology to...


Dec 28, 2020

Join hosts Anders Larson, FSA, MAAA, and Shea Parkes, FSA, MAAA, for the first in a series of podcasts focused on machine learning in the cloud. This episode introduces a useful definition of the cloud and digs deeper into what aspects of machine learning make it a good fit for cloud based solutions.