Feature Benefits
Databricks
Changes!
Data Science Before-and-After
Math!
Altonian Potpourri
100
Sav[ing] ~10 person-hours per quarter by remediating manual work.
What is the Impact Assessment dashboard?
100
The city that Databricks' is headquartered.
What is San Francisco?
100
This multi-day event was skipped this quarter by the Data Science team, in favor of a new method of thinking through our features
What is PI Planning?
100
If our connection to ClaimVantage was a delicious frozen treat.
What is an APIce Cream?
100
This day of the year is the only one where, if you separate the two digits of the day and square them, you get the numeric month and day you started with.
What is April 25th (04/25)?
100
This character was one of Alton's first Halloween costumes.
What is Slimer?
200
Removing significant maintenance and upkeep costs from the Actuarial department.
What is "Deploy Claims Analytics system 2.0?"
200
Databricks was an extension of the AMPLab project at this famous Bay Area University
What is UC-Berkeley?
200
This company was recently acquired by Standard Insurance, expanding our RP footprint to include new retirement recordkeeping business.
What is Securian Financial?
200
If the Data Science team's director was a day of the week.
What is Jesse Hammonday?
200
1.4142135623730950488016887242095
What is
sqrt(2)?
200
This Arizona city is where Alton lived from 1989 to 1996.
What is Tucson?
300
[T]he DS team [can] identify opportunities for automation and gaps in the process that would need to be filled for future process improvement.
What is "Support mapping STD + Absence + PFML adjudication workflow"?
300
The year that Databricks was founded.
What is 2013?
300
This insurance provider for Standard employees is being phased out this year in favor of BlueCross/BlueShield
What is Aetna?
300
Behaving honestly on our way to full automation of claims.
What is "Playing it Straight-through processing"?
300
A value of k such that y(t) is a solution to the subsequent differential equation.
y(t) = e^(kt)
dy/dt = 5*y(t)
What is 5?
300
One of the four states that Alton has not visited.
What is either North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, or Alaska?
400
[S]erv[ing] as a use-case for our PROD development pattern in Databricks architecture and data modeling.
What is "Bring STD-LTD Rollover to Production"?
400
This architecture combines the best elements of Data Lakes and Data Warehouses.
What is a Data Lakehouse?
400
The realignment of pay ranges announced yesterday will be effective on this month
What is January 2023?
400
Registering official ownership of a gold discovery, with our current problematic duplicate data
What is "Stake a ClaimID"?
400
This estimator, sqrt(x^2 + y^2) ~= 0.96x + 0.4y , is accurate to within 5% of the real value when this relationship between x and y is true.
What is when x is greater than y?
400
This video, taken in Alton's favorite National Park, is looking this peak, Nevada's tallest, which he climbed in 1994.
What is Wheeler Peak?
500
Reduce risk by ensuring best practices across data management and forecast modeling
What is "Deploy new forecasting tools for STD/A planning"?
500
The support for these four languages is highlighted as an example of the flexibility of the cross-team notebooks in Databricks.
What are R, Scala, Python, and SQL?
500
This new organization, containing the Data Science team, was announced by Mike De Voe's email on October 20th.
What is Enterprise Data & Analytics (EDA)?
500
A restaurant in Pioneer Place with karaoke, bowling, and games, paired with one of our already-deployed dashboards.
What is Punchbowl Social Security Offsets?
500
int_0^3 3x^2 + 3 \ dx
What is 36?
500
Alton's favorite composer, famous for his Nocturnes, who gave only 30 public performances on Piano before his death in October 1849
Who is Frédéric Chopin?