Big Data: Progress in Automating Extreme Risk Analysis

Big data can be a curse and a blessing for the statistician. We report in this paper about some positive effect of big data: big data may open the way for more reliable risk analysis, simply because more extreme data are available. However, big data also require a fully automated analysis. We present here a method, which can easily be implemented and used for large numbers of statistical attributes. We apply this method to safety issues at airplane landings.