With apologies to my pensions actuary friends - saving for a pension is rarely anyone’s idea of a great time. But sometimes there are great incentives : Employers might match your contributions - either because employment laws make them, or else because a good pension package helps to attract and retain talent (or both) Governments might provide tax incentives - around the world populations are…
Code htl . html ` <style> section { margin-top: 50px; } .description { display: none } .image { width: ${ width } } </style> ` This post is especially intended for interested non-actuaries , and it’s simplified. Feel free to send me feedback , suggestions, and to share! Life insurance In this post I aim to briefly illustrate some basic actuarial terminology for life insurance . Some usual…
Code /* svg styles for viz */ htl . html ` <style> path.background { stroke: none } g.mark-group.role-scope.concat_1_group { opacity: ${ opacities } } g.mark-group.role-scope.concat_1_group path.background { /*stroke: aqua;*/ stroke-width: 10px; fill: aqua; fill-opacity: ${ opacities2 } ; } </style> ` /* end */ For an interactive pension savings calculator , I’m aiming to illustrate some value of…
INFLATION - we love it! We hate it. (Hm, we probably just hate it.) But it seems we love reading about it. Which is not really surprising: inflation and the economy have a significant impact on our livelihoods. So you might have already heard the good news: it’s coming down! 📉✅😀 (disclaimer: some places and things!) But what does reducing inflation mean about prices ? Rather than give you…
Here’s a type of visualization I haven’t gotten excited to share in a while: A visualization on entirely static data! Below are 8,155 policy data points in a scatterplot along with distributions for key features. All visuals are interactive and linked (‘coordinated’); you can: drag to filter intervals on the scatterplot or the distributions above it toggle the features below it Visuals, summary…
The tagline for calculang “a language for calculations” can attract high expectations. I’ve become acustomed to reset those by attaching “naive” to the execution model. Self-deprecating yes, but strictly this is a current- and problem-dependent adjective. So I’ve leaned in anyways and hopefully given some hint here and there that it can be helpful for some things - adjectives aside. And that’s…
Certainly among my favorite modelling jobs was the ❤️ visual I made for my Twitter followers on Valentines day . The missing interaction is finally below, along with some help about how it works. I did my best to choose somewhat self-explanatory input names 🙂 Visual Spec md `**inputs** ⚙️` Visual Spec viewof pinchiness_in = Inputs . input ( 0.8 ) viewof radius_in = Inputs . input ( 5 ) viewof…
Hey, I’m Declan 👋 I work with numbers! And here I’ll write about calculang - a language for calculations, and other numbers subjects. That includes finance things, AI, climate change, and other profound subjects where numbers have a real impact on us, as well as more fun stuff like maths in nature and around us, and maths art! 🎨 I’ll slowly roll things out here, but for some of my earlier work…