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Philip Trick

Philip Trick

Philip is a practicing property and casualty actuary as an associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society. He attended Boston University and graduated Cum Laude with a MA in Economics.

  • Arlington, TX
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Present Value, Perpetuities, and You

Almost every part of your financial life involves present values and perpetuity calculations. From your monthly mortgage payment to your credit card balance to your student loans, all of your financial obligations are somehow connected to the imaginative idea of a perpetuity - at least, in terms of valuing that
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Quick Tip: Building Measure Tests in Power BI

Incorporate a unit testing framework into your Power BI reports with some simple measures combined with a matrix visualization.
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QuickTip: Consolidate Excel Data

Consolidate data from multiple tables within Excel into one table using PowerQuery, a basic function, and a parameters table in under 7 minutes.
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The Promise Of PowerQuery Custom Data Types

PowerQuery custom data types offer promise of bold and powerful new features in the future; however, their current implementation is currently limited to simple, non-hierarchical data.
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Unit Testing in R, A Silly Mistake

Unit testing in R is straight-forward and easy so long as you remember to appropriately dive into your lists!
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Bespoke Cloud Solutions

Explainly offers bespoke cloud-based technology solutions for your specific business needs.
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Quick Tip: Build a Project Management Report

Explainly builds a share-able basic project management data capture and reporting system in 7 minutes. Learn how to build the report yourself and then interact with and add your own project data.
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Introducing Microsoft's PowerApps

Microsoft's PowerApps makes web app development as easy as writing Excel formulas while dragging and dropping the pieces across a canvas.