Pick a number: big data, artificial intelligence and aviation

Airline transport faces an enviable problem: how does it improve an already impressive safety record? Doing so may be beyond human capability, but well within the potential of two computing concepts--big data and artificial intelligence. Big data is an almost self-defining term. More specifically, as defined by Gartner Group in 2001, it is data that has the three Vs: 'greater variety, arriving in increasing volumes and with ever-higher velocity.' The Airbus A350 is a good example of the three Vs.