Data Science
What is the name of the extension of linear modeling that is commonly used for predicting binary outcomes?
What is Logistic Regression?
What insurance company is known as first to use telematics in pricing?
What is Progressive?
Name 4 vertical search platforms that offer auto insurance clicks for purchase?
What is (any 4 of)
MediaAlpha
QuoteWizard
QuinStreet
EverQuote
DMS
Kissterra
SmartFinancial
What Databricks tool enables users to develop, run and share code in python, R, Scala and SQL in a collection of cells?
What are Databricks Notebooks?
What auto insurance carrier did GM partner with to gather insurance data prior to starting the insurance company that is now called GMIC?
What is American Family Insurance?
What does SQL stand for?
What is Structured Query Language?
What is the term for an insurance claim where the underlying auto collision has occurred but the insurance company does not yet know about the claim?
What is Incurred but not Reported (IBNR)
What auto insurance carrier was the first to be known for offering a pay-per-mile insurance product and was acquired by Lemonade?
What is Metromile?
What Databricks tool enables users to query data in a similar way to a traditional relational database?
What is GMIC's latest telematics algorithm named after (from GM's history)?
What is GNX?
What statistical phenomenon occurs when a trend appears in several groups of data but disappears or reverses when the groups are combined?
What is Simpson's Paradox?
What formula relates loss cost, frequency and severity?
What is loss cost = frequency x severity?
Name 3 companies that are commonly used by insurers to order data in support of pricing and underwriting at new business?
What is (any 3 of)
Verisk
LexisNexis
TransUnion
Equifax
Experian
Arity
(there are others)
?
What Databricks tool is used for Data and Model Governance, Access Control, Lineage tracking and asset management?
What is Unity Catalog?
What historical GM business unit was sold off as part of the bankrupcy during the 2008 recession that provided auto financing and insurance?
What is GMAC?
In A/B testing, what does a p-value measure?
What is the probability of observing results at least as extreme as those obtained, assuming the null hypothesis is true?
What statistical modeling technique is commonly used to develop auto insurance rating plans that insurers file with regulators?
What company partners with Life360 which enables them to make their telematics driving score available to insurers to price and underwrite new business?
What is Arity?
What tool on Databricks is used to track model development experiments, model versioning and as a model registry?
What is MLflow?
What company hosted a competition in 2006 that famously accelerated interest in machine learning?
What is Netflix?
List 2 common ways that auto insurance data scientists evaluate performance of loss cost models for Pricing?
What is any two of:
gini curve/coefficient
1-way lift plot
2-way lift plot
mean squared error
deviance (tweedie for loss cost, poisson for frequency, gamma for severity)
?
What auto insurance carrier and digital used vehicle sales platform have received press covering their partnership offering insurance at the end of the vehicle sales flow?
What are Root and Carvana?
What tool on Databricks is used for deploying machine learning models to run in near real time as api's?
What is Databricks Model Serving?
Name 3 of the first 4 major AI initiatives that GMIC has prioritized?
What are (any 3 of)
Zenarate
Salient
Liberate
Claims Document Processing
?