Apr 6, 2022 • 24M

Death and Data

It's all processes

 
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Mary Pat Campbell
Meep (Mary Pat Campbell) talks about mortality trends and/or public finance issues, usually with a connection to current events.
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References in the recording:

The Provisional CDC WONDER Database can be found here: https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10-provisional.html

ASOP 23: Data Quality http://www.actuarialstandardsboard.org/asops/data-quality/

The time I discussed data quality 2 years ago:

(Actuaries! Listen to the podcast and watch the video! Read ASOP 23! Between the three should be 50 minutes… one credit of CE! Of professionalism! For free!)

Stories on the geneticists changing the gene names because of Excel in August 2020: Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates

Human genes renamed as Microsoft Excel reads them as dates

COVID data lost due to using old file formats in October 2020:

The Wrong Tool for an Important Job (that one is by me)

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