Przegląd Statystyczny. Statistical Review, 2020, vol. 67, 3, 238–242 Report from the 29th Scientific Conference ‘Classification and Data Analysis – Theory and Applications’ Krzysztof Jajuga, a Krzysztof Najman, b Marek Walesiak c The 29th Scientific Conference ‘Classification and Data Analysis – Theory and Applications’ (the 24th Taxonomic Conference) of the Classification and Data Analysis Section of the Polish Statistical Association (SKAD) took place on 7–9 September 2020, in Sopot, Poland. The conference was organised by the Faculty of Management of the University of Gdansk and held online through the Microsoft Teams communication platform. Krzysztof Najman, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof. at the University of Gdansk was the chairman of the Organising Committee, and Kamila Migdał-Najman, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof. at the University of Gdansk, Teresa Plenikowska-Ślusarz, MSc, and Katarzyna Raca, MSc, were the Committee members. The basic information about the conference is available at: http://wzr.ug.edu.pl /skad-2020/. The topics discussed included: • theoretical aspects (taxonomy, discriminant analysis, linear ordering methods, multivariate statistical analysis, methods of analysing continuous variables, methods of discrete variables analysis, symbolic data analysis, graphical methods); • practical applications (financial data analysis, marketing data analysis, spatial data analysis, other areas of data analysis application – medicine, psychology, arche- ology, etc., computer applications of statistical methods). The main objective of the SKAD conference was to present the ongoing research and to create a platform for the exchange of ideas relating to theoretical and applied aspects of classification and data analysis. This annually-held forum is meant to present and promote state-of-the-art research and to indicate the possible directions for its development. The conference featured 44 speakers who are faculty members and doctoral stu- dents of the following universities and institutions: AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, University of Economics in Katowice, Cracow University of Economics, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Wroclaw a Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, ul. Komandorska 118/120, 53-345 Wrocław, Poland, e-mail: krzysztof.jajuga@ue.wroc.pl, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5624-6929. b University of Gdansk, Faculty of Management, ul. Armii Krajowej 101, 81-824 Sopot, Poland, e-mail: krzysztof.najman@ug.edu.pl, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-2858. c Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, ul. Komandorska 118/120, 53-345 Wrocław, Poland, e-mail: marek.walesiak@ue.wroc.pl, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0922-2323.