Data Science perspective: MH370
flight data are crucial
It has been a while and still no answer for
the missing airplane of flight MH370. This case may give many possibilities, so
guessing by trying each of them is painful and may lead to wrong directions,
time consuming and frustrations. So simulating both physical and mathematical
model maybe an answer
Mathematical
Model
Data Science is newly established profession
to solve problems with data insights in high volume of data, so in this case like
airplane information systems, weather condition, pattern recognition, path
selections etc.
Based in the data above, Data Scientists
like me can build specific models to adapt exact or similar scenarios of the
missing plane in the line MH370
This may give as good picture what may
happen to flight, where may landed, what weather condition we had on that time,
what other circumstances occurred and what impact they had over the plane.
Picture: Possible routes
If Malaysian Airport can provide with
specific technical information about MH370 airplane, historical data of all
MH370 flights, we may find important patterns to solve this mystery. Period
between departure and lost signal may give us the distance compared to average distance
of all MH370 flights on the same period. Adding weather condition may help us
to segments the other MH370 flights that had same weather condition to seek
specific scenarios under same weather condition. Route lines are similar to all
flights in the same airline, but segmenting them to specific conditions of the
missing flight like weather, airplane type, technical conditions, air pressure
etc… may lead us to better targets. Technical check before departure may give
us information of what have been checked or not and if there is room for
possible technical failure. If there is room for failures, we can use data from
all technical failure plan crashes to predict the time occurred the failure by
that distance also segmented to adapt most the missing flight model.
Big Data technology provides us with the
power to analyze big and complicated data sets, and there are plenty of
professionals to do so.
Physical
model- Simulation
I am not the expert of the field but it can
be very smart to build a flight simulation of MH370 based on the mathematical
model that we provided here and including other external data that have impact
on the fight itself. Sometimes visualization may bring in table other factors
that may be decisive in solving the mystery.
These represent alternative approaches to
what may help involved institutions to solve this case and I hope they may consider
these.
