For the first time in eleven years, the Dallas Mavericks have qualified for the play-offs. America has great plans for the wonder boy who is so exemplarily normal. People would also like to use them to secure new research funds, or to become well-known. But that s difficult when you are dealing with surprise results. And then there is something else that we call exploratory data analysis.
Some people also refer to it rather disrespectfully as fishing around in the data.
You use a computer to comb through the data and fish out something. Our hope, and perhaps also our future perspective, lies in linking epidemiology with genetic methods. That way our predictions could become more precise. Out of the concert hall, into the discotheque with turnover from classical music declining, young people are now to be won over for a new mixture of pop and the old masters. Bach and Mozart are already a regular source of relaxation in London clubs normally droning to the sounds of house or electro.