Jennifer Lang 🐧

Sydney based director and actuary looking at the world through an actuarial eye. Lots of statistics, often feminist. She/her.

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

@anne_theriault Ronda, Cadiz, Seville, Granada, in that area, all amazing. And medieval history in that part of Spain is also Muslim history which is fascinating. And top medieval Christian story is El Cid, look for the way of El Cid, if you want a theme.

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

@ALeighMP @ACTPedalPower @stephenhodgeaus @AusCycling @AusTriathlon @helenhainesindi @WeRideAustralia Glad you support bike riding, but $100m in active transport funding across the whole of Australia is a drop in the ocean compared with how much is spent on roads. Take a look at so many European cities (Paris, Toulouse, Valencia) to see what a difference real funding can make.

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

@Skyelark0 Hah got it but only because I’m old (regional vic train and nsw coach in my student days)

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@sharonodea I used to live there! But I used to say that I lived in Paddington or Hyde Park, depending on what class status I was trying to project.

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

@AdeleGroyer @lrossouw This is so sad, and thanks so much for letting us know @lrossouw. I never met Adele, but her calm good sense and rigorous analysis was an inspiration to me and many other actuaries trying to understand Covid 19 throughout.

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

@devisridhar When a major bike organisation surveyed its members, the two most important things were car driver behaviour and better infrastructure (eg separate bike lanes) https://t.co/XTQ58MMN1w

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

@KetanJ0 Yes please

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

@BrentToderian @sharanjit They also have a LOT of wind. I've heard windy days referred to as Dutch hills. And if you've ever tried riding into a serious headwind, sometimes a hill is easier.

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

How is it possible to spend $70million on a project to track the spending of fewer than 1,000 people and still not have it work? That’s several multiples of the cost of a general ledger for a large company!

[Craig Foster @Craig_Foster]

Hey @KensingtonRoyal, you’ve been proudly supporting England all tournament.

Not a word for Australia.

Not that we expect it.

We prefer the honesty. Without the patronising pat on the head in defeat.

Support @lionesses & let us get on with our business, mate.

@AusRepublic

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

@ProfPCDoherty The Actuaries Institute has done a report on the experience for 2020-2022 which you might find interesting. Also compares us to the rest of the world. https://t.co/ym5D5nIli9

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

@EmmaVitz Mind you there is probably more, just hit the word limit!

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

@EmmaVitz Just copying bits of mine: Emma is an advocate for the insights actuaries can add to many important issues. She is a member of the AI's WG on Climate Change, key author of the climate index, and in her spare time she writes actuarially about a wide variety of issues.

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

@Jean__Fisch @AdeleGroyer @KarenCutter4 Australia also had basically no flu in the 2020 winter, so looking at the actual deaths here (the blue dots) there does seem to still be some seasonal pattern, but not nearly as much as in a bad flu season (if you want to compare, 2017 was the worst flu season of all those shown)

[Karen Cutter @KarenCutter4]

The COVID-19 Mortality Working Group of the Actuaries Institute has a new blog out, covering excess mortality to the end of March 2023.
TLDR: 6% excess in 2023Q1
https://t.co/VvMu7f4H2z

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

@brent_peabody The Gold Coast is not a left wing part of Australia though. All the federal seats are LNP, so I don’t think you can rely on the politics staying the same with taller buildings just because it is coastal.

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

Congratulations @juliette_io on your OAM today, you made a big difference to so many people with your Covid stats, well done.

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

Congratulations @migga on your OAM today, Yu made a big difference to so many people with your COVID stats. Well deserved.

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

I had this experience in reverse. « You can use the N95 mask you bought for the bushfires in Black summer 19/20 for the pandemic »

[one dozen bats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

“You can use the N95 mask you bought for the pandemic to filter out the wildfire smoke engulfing the entire Northeast” is a neat little sentence that lets you know we’re in the fun part of the century that future historians are going to talk about a lot.

[Jennifer Lang 🐧 @Actuarialeye]

It's Public Education Day, and I'm #ProudToBePublic, having gone to public schools for my whole education. This is me in Year 6, the year I had Mr Duncan, the best teacher ever, who taught me to write well, even though I just wanted to do maths!