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CASdatasets 1.2.0

Nearly ten years ago, Chrisophe Dutang and I launched a curated collection of datasets featured in Computational Actuarial Science with R, bundled in the CASdatasets R package. Now, this package offers an extensive range of actuarial datasets, serving as a vital resource for students, educators, and researchers alike. We’re excited to unveil version 1.2.0, which includes new vignettes created this summer with Ewen Gallic and Julien Siharath. Explore the latest additions at

https://dutangc.github.io/CASdatasets/index.html

and feel free to contribute with your own applications of these datasets! Observe that a DOI has been assigned to the package:

https://doi.org/10.57745/P0KHAG

Some updates about the insurance datasets package (CASdataset)

Ten years ago, Computational Actuarial Science with R was published. With Christophe Dutang, we created at the same time an R package, collecting datasets used in the book. It was mainly to give access to the datasets to reproduce the applications, since functions used in the different chapters were coming from other R packages. Then, we started adding more and more datasets, not used in the book, but that could be used by researchers and students. We are quite happy to see that those datasets are now considered as a benchmark in actuarial and insurance litterature (and also outside the community, actually).

The maintenance was a bit complicated since it was not possible to be hosted by the CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network), so it was either on Christophe’s github repo, or on a dedicated website at UQAM. Christophe’s repo

https://dutangc.github.io/CASdatasets/

is under construction (or major refreshing, with Ewen Gallic), and several vignettes will be added, created by ). Actually, we encourage colleagues, or students, who used datasets from the package to share some codes, we can now host the application. And there is also the following repository,

https://entrepot.recherche.data.gouv.fr/

Hence, the dataset has now an official DOI, which makes it easier to cite doi:10.57745/P0KHAG. And  the following bib file can be obtained,

@data{P0KHAG_2024,
author = {Dutang, Christophe and Charpentier, Arthur},
publisher = {Recherche Data Gouv},
title = {{Insurance dataset}},
year = {2024},
version = {V1},
doi = {10.57745/P0KHAG},
url = {https://doi.org/10.57745/P0KHAG}
}

IDSC’24, Insurance Data Science Conference, in Stockholm

Great time at the IDSC’24, Insurance Data Science Conference, in Stockholm, those two days…

I am glad to see so many people using the datasets of the CASdatasets package… good news, we are working with Christophe Dutang, Julien Siharath and Ewen Gallic this summer to enrich it, with fresh and new data, and with vignettes ! more about it this Fall !