Portable Scalable Data Visualization Techniques for Apache Spark and Python Notebook-based Analytics
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Python Notebooks are great for communicating data analysis & research but how do you port these data visualizations between the many available platforms (Jupyter, Databricks, Zeppelin, Colab,…). Also learn about how to scale up your visualizations using Spark
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The third speaker at Process Mining Camp 2018 was Dinesh Das from Microsoft. Dinesh Das is the Data Science manager in Microsoft’s Core Services Engineering and Operations organization.
Machine learning and cognitive solutions give opportunities to reimagine digital processes every day. This goes beyond translating the process mining insights into improvements and into controlling the processes in real-time and being able to act on this with advanced analytics on future scenarios.
Dinesh sees process mining as a silver bullet to achieve this and he shared his learnings and experiences based on the proof of concept on the global trade process. This process from order to delivery is a collaboration between Microsoft and the distribution partners in the supply chain. Data of each transaction was captured and process mining was applied to understand the process and capture the business rules (for example setting the benchmark for the service level agreement). These business rules can then be operationalized as continuous measure fulfillment and create triggers to act using machine learning and AI.
Using the process mining insight, the main variants are translated into Visio process maps for monitoring. The tracking of the performance of this process happens in real-time to see when cases become too late. The next step is to predict in what situations cases are too late and to find alternative routes.
As an example, Dinesh showed how machine learning could be used in this scenario. A TradeChatBot was developed based on machine learning to answer questions about the process. Dinesh showed a demo of the bot that was able to answer questions about the process by chat interactions. For example: “Which cases need to be handled today or require special care as they are expected to be too late?”. In addition to the insights from the monitoring business rules, the bot was also able to answer questions about the expected sequences of particular cases. In order for the bot to answer these questions, the result of the process mining analysis was used as a basis for machine learning.
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Feature Engineering for Electronic Health Record Systems
Feature Engineering for Electronic Health Record SystemsProcess mining Evangelist Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a leading science and technology laboratory under the direction of the Department of Energy.
Hilda Klasky is part of the R&D Staff of the Systems Modeling Group in the Computational Sciences & Engineering Division at ORNL. To prepare the data of the radiology process from the Veterans Affairs Corporate Data Warehouse for her process mining analysis, Hilda had to condense and pre-process the data in various ways. Step by step she shows the strategies that have worked for her to simplify the data to the level that was required to be able to analyze the process with domain experts.
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Understanding Complex Development Processes
Understanding Complex Development ProcessesProcess mining Evangelist The fifth talk at Process Mining Camp was given by Olga Gazina and Daniel Cathala from Euroclear. As a data analyst at the internal audit department Olga helped Daniel, IT Manager, to make his life at the end of the year a bit easier by using process mining to identify key risks.
She applied process mining to the process from development to release at the Component and Data Management IT division. It looks like a simple process at first, but Daniel explains that it becomes increasingly complex when considering that multiple configurations and versions are developed, tested and released. It becomes even more complex as the projects affecting these releases are running in parallel. And on top of that, each project often impacts multiple versions and releases.
After Olga obtained the data for this process, she quickly realized that she had many candidates for the caseID, timestamp and activity. She had to find a perspective of the process that was on the right level, so that it could be recognized by the process owners. In her talk she takes us through her journey step by step and shows the challenges she encountered in each iteration. In the end, she was able to find the visualization that was hidden in the minds of the business experts.
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How to Set Up Process Mining in a Decentralized Organization?
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The history of a.s.r. begins 1720 in “Stad Rotterdam”, which as the oldest insurance company on the European continent was specialized in insuring ocean-going vessels — not a surprising choice in a port city like Rotterdam. Today, a.s.r. is a major Dutch insurance group based in Utrecht.
Nelleke Smits is part of the Analytics lab in the Digital Innovation team. Because a.s.r. is a decentralized organization, she worked together with different business units for her process mining projects in the Medical Report, Complaints, and Life Product Expiration areas. During these projects, she realized that different organizational approaches are needed for different situations.
For example, in some situations, a report with recommendations can be created by the process mining analyst after an intake and a few interactions with the business unit. In other situations, interactive process mining workshops are necessary to align all the stakeholders. And there are also situations, where the process mining analysis can be carried out by analysts in the business unit themselves in a continuous manner. Nelleke shares her criteria to determine when which approach is most suitable.
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