October Meet-up

We're delighted to welcome you to our October Meet-up. Pizza and soft drinks will be served on a first-come-first-served basis as usual.

Schedule

1800--1830h: Refreshments

1830--1835h: Welcome

1835--1905h: Deploying models into production with vetiver

1905--1915h: Intermission

1915--1945h: A Bayesian workflow for modelling casualty insurance risk

1945--1950h: News & Announcements

Talks

Myles Mitchell, Data Scientist @ Jumping Rivers
Deploying models into production with vetiver

Ever wondered how you would take your machine learning models from development to production? The vetiver framework offers a beginner-friendly and free-to-use interface for versioning, deploying and monitoring your models built in Python and R. This talk will provide a brief introduction to MLOps and its importance in the machine learning lifecycle. Using a basic MLOps stack built using vetiver, we will cover practical techniques and best practices for ensuring your models are not only functional but also robust and scalable.

Conor Goold, Senior Data Scientist @ Ledger Investing
A Bayesian workflow for modelling casualty insurance risk

Can we predict the profitability of an insurance company? As one of the oldest areas of applied statistics, actuarial science is concerned with forecasting risk, and has developed a number of tools to assess whether the balance of losses and premiums will be favourable to the solvency of insurance programs.

At Ledger, we use Bayesian modelling to provide a robust view of insurance company performance to help investors form decisions about whether to invest in insurance programs. We have developed a Bayesian workflow for modelling the performance of insurance programs in keeping with standard actuarial methods that we evaluate using decades of historical data. This talk will provide an overview of this Bayesian workflow.

ArXiv pre-print: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14666

News and Announcements

Have a news item or announcement you'd like to make about upcoming data events or job opportunities in the North East? Comment below or email us at **neds@jumpingrivers.com** and we'll do our best to circulate this information during the session.