@fbabovic.bsky.social
Now in the private sector - working at the intersection of natural catastrophes and capital markets at Moody’s RMS. All opinions my own.
#CLIMATERISK JOBS
Moody’s RMS has opened up hiring for a bunch of entry level roles in London, NYC and Edinburgh.
These are positions across our model development, customer success (my org), and data science teams. If you are a grad or soon to be grad looking for work this could be for you!
Moody’s RMS has opened up hiring for a bunch of entry level roles in London, NYC and Edinburgh.
These are positions across our model development, customer success (my org), and data science teams. If you are a grad or soon to be grad looking for work this could be for you!
October 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
#CLIMATERISK JOBS
Moody’s RMS has opened up hiring for a bunch of entry level roles in London, NYC and Edinburgh.
These are positions across our model development, customer success (my org), and data science teams. If you are a grad or soon to be grad looking for work this could be for you!
Moody’s RMS has opened up hiring for a bunch of entry level roles in London, NYC and Edinburgh.
These are positions across our model development, customer success (my org), and data science teams. If you are a grad or soon to be grad looking for work this could be for you!
I remembered seeing this and it came in so clutch cleaning up data that had a number of different data versions in it #rstats
dplyr::rows_update() and dplyr::rows_patch() continue to be super helpful functions when you want to fill missing data with data collected from another source. #rstats
More examples: cghlewis.github.io/data-wrangli...
More examples: cghlewis.github.io/data-wrangli...
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I remembered seeing this and it came in so clutch cleaning up data that had a number of different data versions in it #rstats
A cool job for the climate-data-finance nerds
Hey data nerds! I've made a lateral move and my old role is open for applications. It's a data science leader role in home insurance (industry experience strongly preferred). Hybrid in the listed locations. Take a look!
#RStats #python #dataScience
thehartford.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...
#RStats #python #dataScience
thehartford.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...
Director, Data Science; Personal Insurance- Homeowners
Dir Data Science - GD06AE We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to ac...
thehartford.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A cool job for the climate-data-finance nerds
Looks like Apache Sedona has been democratised for smaller datasets and local analyses. Looking forward to making my #rstats code go brrrr 🔥
sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/...
sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/...
Introducing SedonaDB: A single-node analytical database engine with geospatial as a first-class citizen - Apache Sedona
Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. Sedona extends existing cluster computing systems, such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Snowflake, with a set of...
sedona.apache.org
September 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Looks like Apache Sedona has been democratised for smaller datasets and local analyses. Looking forward to making my #rstats code go brrrr 🔥
sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/...
sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/...
Reposted
When the world's biggest insurer says climate change has pushed traditional home insurance to its limits, it's already too late to start preparing. And we are in no way ready for a post-insurance world.
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Home Insurance as You Know It Is Doomed. You’re Not Ready.
The remedies for homeowners so far aren’t preparing them for a financially stable existence as the risk of disaster increases.
www.bloomberg.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
When the world's biggest insurer says climate change has pushed traditional home insurance to its limits, it's already too late to start preparing. And we are in no way ready for a post-insurance world.
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh my word. There is a r package for everything.
September 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Oh my word. There is a r package for everything.
At the Minnesota state fair today, what’s this years must eat?
August 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
At the Minnesota state fair today, what’s this years must eat?
I am in Milwaukee for a wedding- no one told me it’s giving Williamsburg Brooklyn pre-2010
August 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I am in Milwaukee for a wedding- no one told me it’s giving Williamsburg Brooklyn pre-2010
I will unfortunately not be able to make this years @climateproof.news happy hour due to pre-existing commitments but you should if you are a #climaterisk professional!
luma.com/p1w9klj2
luma.com/p1w9klj2
Climate Proof Adaptation Happy Hour · Luma
Join your friends at Climate Proof for an end-of-Climate Week drinks mixer!
Reflect on a week of panels, tech demos, and awkward small talk with fellow readers…
luma.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I will unfortunately not be able to make this years @climateproof.news happy hour due to pre-existing commitments but you should if you are a #climaterisk professional!
luma.com/p1w9klj2
luma.com/p1w9klj2
Very cool paper! Happy to see stuff like this make it to the academic journals
What if companies disclosed climate risk the same way insurers analyze it: with event-based probabilistic models that show what could happen, when, and with what likelihood?
Check out our new paper in Environmental Research: Climate to learn more!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Check out our new paper in Environmental Research: Climate to learn more!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
August 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Very cool paper! Happy to see stuff like this make it to the academic journals
New York climate week is on the horizon. Does anyone have any good #climaterisk sessions they can recommend?
August 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
New York climate week is on the horizon. Does anyone have any good #climaterisk sessions they can recommend?
This chat with @michaelwara.bsky.social was really great, very informative
🔥 New Risky Science Podcast: Stanford's Michael Wara on why California should BUY wildfire models, not build them
🎧pod.link/1825669405/e...
#WildfireRisk #Insurance #California
🎧pod.link/1825669405/e...
#WildfireRisk #Insurance #California
August 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This chat with @michaelwara.bsky.social was really great, very informative
I seem to be unable to open csvs or parquets using positron directly from file explorer with the “open with” function. Anyone else having this issue #rstats
August 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I seem to be unable to open csvs or parquets using positron directly from file explorer with the “open with” function. Anyone else having this issue #rstats
#rstats has anyone added a new provider to ellmer? I see that it’s doable but I’m hoping to see if someone has blazed that trail for me and I can follow in their footsteps steps.
July 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
#rstats has anyone added a new provider to ellmer? I see that it’s doable but I’m hoping to see if someone has blazed that trail for me and I can follow in their footsteps steps.
The “orange line is a climate risk scenario, indicating a recession which would be roughly twice as bad as the euro crisis, in line with the peak-to-trough in 2008-9 and only exceeded by the COVID-19 shock”. #climaterisk
www.ft.com/content/79fc...
www.ft.com/content/79fc...
The ECB’s song of fire and flood keeps getting louder
But is anyone listening?
www.ft.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The “orange line is a climate risk scenario, indicating a recession which would be roughly twice as bad as the euro crisis, in line with the peak-to-trough in 2008-9 and only exceeded by the COVID-19 shock”. #climaterisk
www.ft.com/content/79fc...
www.ft.com/content/79fc...
That’s enough posts on how to speed up r for now. More nat cat musings to come!
July 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
That’s enough posts on how to speed up r for now. More nat cat musings to come!
Another #rstats gis hack: I’ve been trying to take a 2.5 mil spatial points, buffer them, and then union the buffers into one shape. Turns out if you just order those points by lat, lon you can cut down run time required by st_union() from 6.5 hours to just 5 minutes!! 🏎️🏎️
July 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Another #rstats gis hack: I’ve been trying to take a 2.5 mil spatial points, buffer them, and then union the buffers into one shape. Turns out if you just order those points by lat, lon you can cut down run time required by st_union() from 6.5 hours to just 5 minutes!! 🏎️🏎️
For the #rstats peeps: are there any packages/paradigms for multi agent systems? Python has things like langchain, do we have anything similar?
June 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
For the #rstats peeps: are there any packages/paradigms for multi agent systems? Python has things like langchain, do we have anything similar?
Reposted
Updated all-time costliest National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) events on record.
Note: Helene now sits at #4 ($6.18B), though nearly all of those payouts have come in Florida ($5.8B). North Carolina only at ~$0.2B.
Most Americans living inland from the coast have no flood insurance coverage.
Note: Helene now sits at #4 ($6.18B), though nearly all of those payouts have come in Florida ($5.8B). North Carolina only at ~$0.2B.
Most Americans living inland from the coast have no flood insurance coverage.
June 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Updated all-time costliest National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) events on record.
Note: Helene now sits at #4 ($6.18B), though nearly all of those payouts have come in Florida ($5.8B). North Carolina only at ~$0.2B.
Most Americans living inland from the coast have no flood insurance coverage.
Note: Helene now sits at #4 ($6.18B), though nearly all of those payouts have come in Florida ($5.8B). North Carolina only at ~$0.2B.
Most Americans living inland from the coast have no flood insurance coverage.
Spent 20 minutes cutting down the run time of a line of #rstats code from 5 secs to 1.6 secs. This was satisfying, but honestly a really bad use of my time
June 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Spent 20 minutes cutting down the run time of a line of #rstats code from 5 secs to 1.6 secs. This was satisfying, but honestly a really bad use of my time
Not a function that I need to use very often but a good’un have in your back pocket. Turns delimited values in a cell into rows! #rstats
tidyr.tidyverse.org/reference/se...
tidyr.tidyverse.org/reference/se...
Split a string into rows — separate_longer_delim
Each of these functions takes a string and splits it into multiple rows:
separate_longer_delim() splits by a delimiter.
separate_longer_position() splits by a fixed width.
tidyr.tidyverse.org
June 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Not a function that I need to use very often but a good’un have in your back pocket. Turns delimited values in a cell into rows! #rstats
tidyr.tidyverse.org/reference/se...
tidyr.tidyverse.org/reference/se...
I’m going to pack up my catastrophe models and go home. Why didn’t I think of this? Problem solved.
June 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I’m going to pack up my catastrophe models and go home. Why didn’t I think of this? Problem solved.