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I have loads of COVID-related mortality to lay on y’all, and no, I’m not doing a video (yet). It is much faster for me to write an extremely long post than to get a video together.
So a post it is.
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Recently, Equable put out a report on public pensions in the U.S. called State of Pensions 2020.
Most of the graphs and conclusions they draw are not unusual to me, especially one line that came out of their press release that many places covering the report glommed onto: by meep
Before I jump into this, I miss the days where I could figure out numbers about “suspicious” Dominican deaths. Or suspicious deaths of Russian men. Man, those were the days. So let’s get to it… …um, prepare to count the dead by meep
As I mentioned last week, for the next few Fridays I’m rerunning my “Public Pensions Primer” posts that I originally wrote, starting in 2015. This post is a reworking of Public Pensions Primer: The Choice of Discount Rate and Return Volatility from July 31, 2015. In some places, I... by meep
Looking at two versions of a graph of deaths — no need to exaggerate a trend. by meep
I have been seeing various people talking about buying (and selling) in the current market. My general advice is: DON’T. Now, there are lots of outs to that advice, and the main out is if you’ve done this before. And you are able to suck it up if you lose a... by meep
I may (or may not) do something more involved later, but I thought I’d share some of the materials I’ve found the last few weeks re: COVID-19 and its deadliness and infectiousness. COVID-19: MIDDLE OF THE PACK This is not an attempt to make people feel better... by meep
THE ACTUARIAL PERSPECTIVE When I taught actuarial science students at UConn, and talked to them about actuarial topics (I taught two separate classes: one on computing (Excel, Access, by meep
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You may not realize, but I’m really into data visualization. And, in particular, critiquing data visualizations. Though I would prefer to support good visualizations: Here’s one that...Mortality with Meep: On Florida COVID Deaths and Reporting Lag
Looking at Florida...
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