My Links
Softwares
- Audacity:
a free
audio recorder.
- Bibtex managers: bibdesk,
jabref.
- Calculators (online): web 2.0, online,
- Emerald
editor: a free
multi purpose text editor.
- FileZilla:
a free ftp client
available on many platforms.
- Firefox: the true web browser.
- free forums.
- Gimp:
the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
- basic git and ebook
git for beginners
- LaTeX:
LateX and its packages on CTAN:
- on Linux, you can use the teTex distribution. with emacs
front-end editor.
- on Mac OS X, you can use the Texlive distribution with TexShop
front-end editor, see Texlive
guide.
- on Windows, you can use the MikTex distribution with TexnicCenter
front-end editor.
LateX wikibook is a big source of examples and howto's:
LateX WikibooK. Take a look at the exhaustive
Latex Symbol list, the Beamer themes beamer
themes, reference list latex.
- NeoOffice:
a Mac OS X version of OpenOffice.
- Notepad++:
a free source code editor for Windows.
- OpenOffice:
a free and open
productivity suite.
- R
: a GNU statistical software highly popular (top 20)
with its numerous R packages available on CRAN.
- official documentation manuals, contributed documentation,
- R wikibook:
wikibook,
- free online ebooks
listed in the Big book of R.
Some famous books:
Efficient R programming ,
R packages,
Advanced R,
geocomputation with R,
- R Style Guide or Coding Convention:
Henrik Bengtsson,
Google,
Hadley Wickham,
- R graphics:
R graph library,
original vizualisation from thinkR,
From data to vizualisation,
Elegant graphics for data analysis,
Big book of R,
Valoriser ses donnees avec R,
- R Development platforms :
BioConductor,
OmegaHat,
R-forge,
- Actuarial websites: claim reserving book,
blog of Arthur Charpentier,
- What you can do with R!
Task views,
- seeking information Rseek, blogs on R such as R bloggers,
a package for searching on CRAN or the web
- Opinions on R : TidyverseSkeptic
- pdf: reduce pdf
- Thunderbird: a powerful mail
browser.
- Tinn-R
: an easy-to-use R editor with plenty of functionalities.
- You say math' soft? :
- SAGE,
an web-based open source math
sofware like Maple or Mathematica,
- Maxima
and Scilab
alternatives to the expensive Matlab,
- SYMPHONY
an open-source solver for mixed-integer linear programs
Online interesting stuff
- Actuarial links: E.
Valdez' links , CAS
open source software , advices to write article/memoir in French
- Atlas of semantic: translation,
lexicon,..., termes
mathématiques,
- Chronology of mathematics: ChronoMath,
- Courses:
Khan academy , MIT ,
open
culture,
UPMC, academic earth, UJF,
onlinecoursepro,
cours-assurance,
datacorner,
datacamp,
- Data on the web:
a list of data websites,
data publica,
eurostat,
dataverse.org,
global terrorism database,
- Deregulation financiere:
article CADTM [in French],
- Digits of irrational numbers: RJN's digits,
- English: common
errors
in English,
- Encyclopedia,
econlib ,
Stanford,
UTM,
- Gapminders: statistics and graphs on health and wealth of Nations
- Glossary of insurance terms:
My Stock Market Power ,
IRMI ,
Insurance Information Institute ,
- Glossary of financial terms:
New York Times on the web - glossary,
- Help on French: Banque de dépannage linguistique du Québec,
- How to talk: some
advises on presentation,
- Insurance statistics: Atlas Magazine,
- Job search: career cast, monster,
keljob, cadremploi,
neuvoo,
- Job in mathematics and computer science Zoom metiers in French
- Maps : light pollution map,
IGN geoportail,
- Mathematical functions:
NIST Digital Library of Math Functions, Abramowitz
and Stegun: Handbook of Math Functions.
- Math resources:
WolframMathWorld,
Matrix Reference Manual,
- Metier assurance:
observatoire de l'assurance,
- Mortality databases: Human Mortality Database,
Human cause-of-death Database,
Canada province-level database,
French department-level database,
-
- Population: pyramid, mortality HMD,
- Prime numbers: the
first 15 000 000 prime numbers,
- Ph.D.:
reasons to fail, not
to do,
to do,
- Quantitative actuarial/finance library:
the Quant-Press,
Gloria Mundi,
Math Fi,
Risk Lab CH
- Random Number Generators: the pLab
project,
- Some thoughts on Economic course: in French,
- Truth about the credit
crisis.
- Wiki: Wikia, Citizendium, wikistat
News sites and conferences
Personal pages
[alphabetical order]
- Hansjoerg Albrecher,
- Nicolas Baradel,
- Romain Biard,
- Alexandre Brouste,
- Arthur
Charpentier,
- Areski Cousin,
- Marie
Laure Delignette-Muller,
- Elena Di Bernadino,
- Madeleine-Sophie
Deroche,
- Theodora
Dupont Courtade,
- Olivier François,
- Olivier Gaudoin,
- Vincent Goulet,
- Yuri Goegebeur,
- Pierre-Olivier Goffard,
- Quentin Guibert,
- Armelle
Guillou,
- Caroline Hillairet,
- Aymric
Kamega,
- Nabil
Kazi-Tani,
- Erwan Koch,
- Pierre
L'Ecuyer,
- Jean Paul Laurent,
- Stéphane
Loisel,
- Martin Maechler,
- Makoto
Matsumoto,
- Etienne
Marceau,
- Véronique
Maume-Deschamps,
- Quentin Meunier,
- Xavier Milhaud,
- Claire Mouminoux,
- Frédéric
Planchet,
- Alexandre Popier,
- Yahia Salhi,
- Kezhan Shi,
- Giorgio A. Spedicato,
- Marc Tchiboukdjian,
- Benoit Vettier,
- Guillaume Voisin,
Actuarial journals
- Annals
of actuarial science,
- ASTIN
Bull. (free),
- Belgian Actuarial Bull. (ceased),
- Bulletin
Francais d'actuariat (free),
- European Actuarial Journal ,
- Geneva Risk
and Insurance review ,
- Insurance: Mathematics and Economics,
- Journal of Actuarial Practice (ceased),
- Journal
of Risk
and Insurance ,
- North American Actuarial Journal,
- Scandinavian Actuarial Journal,
- Variance
(free).
- The European Actuary
(free).
Other journals
Actuarial awards
Online papers
Must-see videos
- A lesson of communication by Steve Jobs: here
- A lesson of English by Tony Blair and David Cameron: there.
- A lesson of French by Fabrice Luchini: ici
- A lesson of madness by Steve Ballmer: here
- A quel point le numérique révolutionne la vie:
G. Berry