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Yeah - particularly the mathematical/statistical side of things. But a big part of the profession is software development / computer science. An actuary might
by EzGraphs 14y ago
Yeah - particularly the mathematical/statistical side of things. But a big part of the profession is software development / computer science. An actuary might construct useful models and choose the proper techniques to analyze data, but choose inferior technologies or suboptimal implementations that won't work for large data sets.
A lot of actuaries spend most of their life inside of Excel. Excel won't cut it with Big Data.
- hessenwolf 14y agoA big part of the profession, and zero part of the training in the profession. Actuaries write worse code than electrical engineers.
- nesu 14y agoData Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. source: http://blog.kaggle.com/2012/10/04/engineering-practices-in-data-science/ http://blog.kaggle.com/2012/10/04/engineering-practices-in-d... Software development is important, but it's not everything. People choose what works and use it. Though I agree that spreadsheets won't always work on Big Data, there's no point in doing more if you can achieve it with less.