Process Mining Preprocessing Tasks

You know the saying: 80% of the time and effort is spent on data preparation and only 20% on analysis. In the latest Process Mining Café, we spoke with Xixi Lu from Utrecht University about her categorization of common preprocessing tasks in process mining.

Xixi and Anne looked at all the six categories: Enriching, Integration, Filtering, Transformation, Reduction, and Abstraction. For each of the categories, we present concrete examples. So, in this episode, you get to see a lot of different types of preprocessing (see also the extensive list of pointers in the links below).

We discussed how these six categories that they distilled from their literature review align with the practical data preparation tasks we see daily. It has been a fascinating discussion. You don’t want to miss this one, especially if you are a science and terminology nerd!

You can now watch the recording here if you weren’t at the live broadcast or want to re-watch the café. A big thanks to Xixi and all of you for joining us!

Here are the links that we mentioned during the session:

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Anne Rozinat

Anne Rozinat

Market, customers, and everything else

Anne knows how to mine a process like no other. She has conducted a large number of process mining projects with companies such as Philips Healthcare, Océ, ASML, Philips Consumer Lifestyle, and many others.