Last Friday marked the end of the official hurricane season for both the North Atlantic (NA) and Eastern Pacific (EP) basins, providing a great opportunity to review how our first tropical cyclone activity forecast performed. Before we dive into the details of each basin/intensity category here is a quick summary of what our projections looked…
reask’s global approach to catastrophe risk forecasting and modelling is accurately reflected in our .earth domain name. Co-founder Nick Hassam sat down recently with Voices.earth to talk about the background of reask, our goals, purpose and the thinking behind our choice of URL. Listen to the podcast in the player below:
Almost 3 months after initial release of our 2018 Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Forecast we were invited to give a talk introducing our modeling approach to the Data Science Sydney (DSS) group. Presenting at the DSS is always a good reality check given the machine learning expertise from the audience, and we are glad to report…
The numbers At the beginning of June we released reask’s inaugural tropical cyclone genesis forecast for the northern hemisphere. Of course we have spent a lot of time back-testing our model, but nothing beats real world live testing and this is our first attempt at it. The complete forecast for all northern hemisphere basins is…
A year ago I presented the results of a survey at the 15th Catastrophe Insurance Conference in Asia, on the potential for disruption of catastrophe modelling in the re/insurance industry. The ensuing 12 months has seen a busy period of development in all areas of insurance technology, so it seemed prudent to revisit the findings…