Learn what the Julia of the Julia-Python-R combination JuPyteR notebooks are named after!
Julia is a programming language with several modern features to make actuaries' lives easier. It is highly capable for many tasks, whether you use it for modeling, data science, communicating results through interactive notebooks, or creating high-quality visualizations. It is a dynamic, interactive language that enables very fast computation while being as easy to learn and write as Python.
Discover more about the programming language already used by the Federal Reserve, large banks, NASA, and many other industries. Julia Dive into an interactive walkthrough of the Julia ecosystem and how Julia is gaining adoption within the insurance space, while also using a range of open-source actuarial packages. You will explore how to elevate your analysis across different dimensions and distillg simpler ways to compose your actuarial models and analysis.
By attending this session, you will be able to:
- Download, install, and use Julia to perform analysis with general purpose and actuarial-specific packages.
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