Author Archives: Robin Way

About Robin Way

The Founder and President of Corios, Robin's professional passion lies in democratizing and demystifying the science of applied analytics. An established thought leader fueled with 30 years’ experience in the design, development, execution and improvement of applied analytics models, Robin welcomes every opportunity to move the analytics conversation forward. Connect with him on LinkedIn , or reach out to Corios to get in touch.

What’s in your SAS code? Find out before you modernize

by Robin Way on February 21, 2023

“I have 4,000 SAS users and 7 million lines of SAS code, and nobody knows what it all does.” These are the words of the Chief Data Officer of one of our insurance industry clients. And the CDO isn’t the … Read More

Count Us In on More Data Analytics

Corios transitions from pandemic to post-recession data analytics storytelling

by Robin Way on November 15, 2022

What a weird several years we’ve all experienced. The pandemic presented all businesses with unique circumstances to overcome. It is possible the biggest challenge was staying the course in data analytics transformation efforts while pushing all employees into the digital … Read More

Eating the elephant, one iteration at a time

Estimating Value at Risk for an IFRS17 Insurance Portfolio via Monte Carlo Simulation using SAS Viya

by Robin Way on September 9, 2021

Supporting IFRS17 portfolio cash flow modeling and simulation Corios has been busy lately supporting our client’s actuaries who are implementing the IFRS17 standard on their set of insurance portfolios. The purpose for this engagement is to better estimate the Value … Read More

Five D’s of Analytic Model Deployment

Moving your models from the lab to the field for business impact

by Robin Way on September 5, 2021

The Challenges: Business Adoption of Analytic Models In order to increase business adoption of analytic models, there is a great deal of work that must occur in addition to model development, and it extends well beyond the model development team. … Read More

Model governance checks: Stability, Peformance and Calibration

Benchmarks for CCAR and IFRS17 practitioners

by Robin Way on September 4, 2021

Some enterprises build a formal model governance practice in order to comply with industry standards such as CCAR (banking industry) or IFRS17 (insurance industry). Others know that building a sound predictive model governance discipline is a great idea to improve … Read More