While at Bell Labs in the 1980s, Dalal said, he worked with a team that looked back on the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster to find out if the event could have been predicted. It is well-known that engineering teams held a tense teleconference the night before the launch to review data that measured risk. Ultimately, a go was ordered, even though Cape Canaveral, Fla., temperatures were much lower than in any previous shuttle flight. A recent article looks at the issues with an eye on how they are related to analytics today.
http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/opinion/Making-connections-Big-data-algorithms-walk-a-thin-line
