The programme for the 2017 R in Insurance conference in Paris has been published. Talks will discuss new ideas and research with the applications in life and general insurance, from network analysis, reserving, pricing to catastrophe modelling, followe...

Recently I have been working on a Kaggle competition where participants are tasked with predicting Russian housing prices. In developing a model for the challenge, I came across a few methods for selecting the best regression model for a given dataset. Let’s load up some data and take a ...

@drsimonj here to make pretty histograms with ggplot2! In this post you’ll learn how to create histograms like this:  The data Let’s simulate data for a continuous variable x in a data frame d: set.seed(070510) d x #__ 1 1.3681661 #__ 2 -0.0452337 #__ 3 0.0290572 #__ 4 -0.8717429 #__ 5 0.9565475 #__ 6 -0.5521690  Basic Histogram Create the basic ggplot2 histogram ...

Recently I have been working with some insurance data, which was created in a forecast process that naturally throws out year-on-year snapshots (what I have), whereas I wanted to determine intra-year positions (what I need). Context The chart below show … Continue reading →

  Hi there!    Over the last few months, my lab-mate Irene Villa (see more of her work here!) and I, have been discussing ecological niche overlap. The niche concept dates back to ideas first proposed by ornithologist J. Grinnell (1917). Later on, G.E. Hutchinson (1957) defined the ecological niche of a species ...