Insurance actuaries were the original data scientists
Jennifer Fitzgerald · Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald · May 24, 2021 · at 18:56
Jennifer Fitzgerald, co-founder and CEO of Policygenius, explains why she found the insurance sector compelling despite its reputation as a boring industry.
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“The original quote unquote data scientists were actuaries, right? So these were people who were looking at mortality tables, morbidity tables, dating back hundreds of years, right? Because insurance has been around for hundreds of years and creating models to price that risk appropriately, right?”
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