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How do plumbers exist if there's no junior plumbers (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Any statician worth it's weight is using R, or at least Python (unless it's like a really old statician using spss or SAS). As someone who did interviews for an actuarial intern position, I didn't even asked the candidates if they knew how to use excel, because excel is fucking useless, I asked them about python and pandas.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Idk, my brother used a ton of excel as an actuary. He used other things too, but excel was absolutely part of it, and he made it to VP level in the insurance industry.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There's a still a lot of excel out there being used, but you can't really do a lot of "real" jobs in excel with is 2^20 maximum rows. I don't have a lot of experience myself (I got my degree on 2022), when I interned we used a lot of excel and SAS and I hated it. After that I landed a job where I had the opportunity to write everything from zero in python, and excel is only used to send the results to other teams or clients. In the company I work now, I'm not part of the actuarial team, but in accounting and from the interview it was clear that I was being hired to re write everything from SAS to Python. Sometimes I pass by the actuarial team and I can see them doing chainladder triangles on excel and is kinda sad, because there's a fantastic Python library for that. I'm planning to stay here until everything on the accounting department run on python and then looking for a senior position on the actuarial team to do the same there.

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

PowerPoint is turing complete in the animations.

You know, if you want to put an interviewee through hell.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

PowerPoint is turing complete in the animations.

I promise to only use this knowledge for evil

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Thank you.

Hmm. Maybe i should go and volunteer for giving computer classes.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

pyMC3 ❤️