Looking forward to my talk at the IFCS 2009 Conference, on the 15th of March. To get a better idea of the event, I suggest listening to the Classification Song which wonderfully summarizes (and praises) the primary scientific areas of Data Analysis.

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The Classification Song

(After Mozart’s “Bastien und Bastienne”, 4th Scene, No.8)

We are here to praise together:
Classification, Data Analysis,
With this song to show their strengths
Classification, Data Analysis,
Support progress mathematic’lly,
mathematic’lly.
We have learned classes are fuzzy,
and regression is outdated,
So, we are modern now
applying Art’ficial Neural Nets
And Support Vector Machines.

Replace trees by random forests,
do not use the good old err’r rates
but turn over to ideal features.
Be as modern as you can,
Be as modern as you can,
And invent clever involved theories
Just forget interpretation
and be optimal instead.

We are here to praise together:
Classification, Data Analysis,
With this song to show their strengths
Classification, Data Analysis,
Support progress mathematic’lly,
mathematic’lly.
We apply our newest methods
to all fields of science now,
econometrics, biometrics,
even music, linguistics,
and archaeology.

Let us link these different fields
To make clear our ubiquity
And our indispensability.
So, remember all the time,
That our methods have to be applied,
Thus, take care of practical tools.
And prepare interpretation,
Be as simple as you can.

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