Questions
Yearly how many planes crashed? how many people were on board? how many survived? how many died?
Highest number of crashes by operator and Type of aircrafts.
‘Summary’ field has the details about the crashes. Find the reasons of the crash and categorize them in different clusters i.e Fire, shot down, weather (for the ‘Blanks’ in the data category can be UNKNOWN) you are open to make clusters of your choice but they should not exceed 7.
Find the number of crashed aircrafts and number of deaths against each category from above step.
Find any interesting trends/behaviors that you encounter when you analyze the dataset.
My solution
The following bar charts display the answers requested by point 1. of the assignment, in particular:
the planes crashed per year
people aboard per year during crashes
people dead per year during crashes
people survived per year during crashes
The following answers regard point 2 of the assignment
I have identified 7 clusters using k-means clustering technique on a matrix obtained by a text corpus created by using Text Analysis (plain text, remove punctuation, to lower, etc.) The following table summarize for each cluster the number of crashes and death.
Cluster 1: 258 crashes, 6368 deaths
Cluster 2: 500 crashes, 9408 deaths
Cluster 3: 211 crashes, 3513 deaths
Cluster 4: 1014 crashes, 14790 deaths
Cluster 5: 2749 crashes, 58826 deaths
Cluster 6: 195 crashes, 4439 deaths
Cluster 7: 341 crashes, 8135 deaths
The following picture shows clusters using the first 2 principal components:
For each clusters I will summarize the most used words and I will try to identify the causes of the crash
Cluster 1 (258) aircraft, crashed, plane, shortly, taking. No many information about this cluster can be deducted using Text Analysis
Cluster 2 (500) aircraft, airport, altitude, crashed, crew, due, engine, failed, failure, fire, flight, landing, lost, pilot, plane, runway, takeoff, taking. Engine failure on the runway after landing or takeoff
Cluster 3 (211): aircraft, crashed, fog Crash caused by fog
Cluster 4 (1014): aircraft, airport, attempting, cargo, crashed, fire, land, landing, miles, pilot, plane, route, runway, struck, takeoff Struck a cargo during landing or takeoff
Cluster 5 (2749): accident, aircraft, airport, altitude, approach, attempting, cargo, conditions, control, crashed, crew, due, engine, failed, failure, feet, fire, flight, flying, fog, ground, killed, land, landing, lost, low, miles, mountain, pilot. plane, poor, route, runway, short, shortly, struck, takeoff, taking, weather
Struck a cargo due to engine failure or bad weather conditions mainly fog
Cluster 6 (195): aircraft, crashed, engine, failure, fire, flight, left, pilot, plane, runway
Engine failure on the runway
Cluster 7 (341): accident, aircraft, altitude, cargo, control, crashed, crew, due, engine, failure, flight, landing, loss, lost, pilot, plane, takeoff
Engine failure during landing or takeoff