The next meeting of the British Classification Society
will take place at the University of Sheffield on
Wednesday 27th April at 3.15 pm. Professor David
Hand will present a talk entitled: 'Academic obsessions
and classification realities: ignoring practicalities
in supervised classification’.
Full details below:
Meeting of the British Classification Society
‘Academic obsessions and classification realities: ignoring
practicalities in supervised classification’ by Professor David Hand
(Imperial College)
Abstract:
Supervised classification methods have been the focus of a vast
amount of research in recent decades, within a variety of
intellectual disciplines, including statistics, machine learning,
pattern recognition, and data mining. However, most of the
advances have largely taken place within the context of the
classical supervised classification paradigm of data analysis.
That is, a classification rule is constructed based on a given
'design sample' of data, with known and well-defined classes,
and this rule is then used to classify future objects. This talk
argues that this paradigm is often, perhaps typically, an over-
idealisation of the practical realities of supervised classification
problems, leading to the suspicion that the apparent superiority
of the highly sophisticated methods is often illusory: simple
methods are often equally effective or even superior in
classifying new data points.
Wednesday 27th April 2005, 3.15 pm
Room K14, Hicks Building, University of Sheffield
Preceded by the Society’s AGM at 2.30 pm in room K14 and tea at
3.00 pm in room I15
For further details please contact Jo Padmore
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Dr J Padmore
Sheffield University Management School
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield S1 4DT
tel: (0114) 222 3439 e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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