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A Side of Data

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A podcast about unconventional data science. Covering Data Science, AI, Data Visualizations, Process mining, BPM, and more. Sometimes also putting data aside to see beyond.

A new episode is released every third week on Sunday.

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Workflow automation with Bernd Ruecker

A Side of DataMay 03, 2020

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Workflow automation with Bernd Ruecker

Workflow automation with Bernd Ruecker

In this episode of A Side Of Data, I interview Bernd Ruecker, a co-founder and chief technologist at Camunda - workflow and decision automation platform. We talk about workflow automation, workflow engines, business process modeling notation (BPMN), robotic process automation (RPA).

The episode timeline:

2:00 what are the workflows and what is workflow automation?
4:00 the difference between workflow, process, and routine?
6:00 what are the workflow engines?
8:00 Historical overview of workflow engines and BPMS.
12:00 why using BPMN? What is a good visual representation of the workflow/process
17:00 competition of the BPMN? Powerpoint? Event-driven process chain?
19:00 Process mining tools (DFGs, process maps vs BPMN)
22:00 workflow use case, on the granularity of BPMN model design
26:00 business process use cases vs software engineering use case for the workflow engines
28:40 RPA (robotic process automation) vs workflow automation
35:00 Future of workflow engines
39:00 How to see that your company needs workflow engines?
42:00 As a student, would you study workflow engines?
43:30 How to get started?

Additional info:
Bernd's page:
berndruecker.io/
Bernd's blog: blog.bernd-ruecker.com/
Camunda: camunda.com/

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Listen to more A Side Of Data:
Building a process mining startup with Raffaele Conforti: soundcloud.com/asideofdata/building-a-process-mining-startup-with-raffaele-conforti

New decade for process mining with Wil van der Aalst: soundcloud.com/asideofdata/new-decade-for-process-mining-with-wil-van-der-aalst
May 03, 202045:06
Building a python process mining library pm4py with Sebastiaan van Zelst

Building a python process mining library pm4py with Sebastiaan van Zelst

In this episode of A Side Of Data, I interview Sebastiaan van Zelst about his experience of building a pm4py python library for process mining.

The show timeline:
1:30 How did pm4py start? The reasons behind
5:30 Why do you need a new library? Why python?
8:00 How big is the library now? What is the current progress
12:00 Categorizing and comparing process mining tools: programming libraries, strand-alone academic, commercial (Apromore, Prom, pm4py, Celonis, Fluxicon Disco, Minit, Process Gold, etc.)
17:30 Problems with commercial tools
20:30 How challenging was to build the pm4py. How easy is it to use the library with the coding workflow on python.
25:40 Projects built on top of the pm4py
29:00 What is available in the library now
32:00 How to start with pm4py and with process mining
34:20 About the PM4Knime project.
37:00 extra: What is the interactive process discovery, how pm4py supports it.

Additional info:
The library:
pm4py.org
The paper on incremental discovery: sebastiaanvanzelst.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Incremental_Discovery_of_Hierarchical_Process_Models__RCIS_1.pdf
Interviewee page: sebastiaanvanzelst.com/?page_id=62
Mentioned telegram bot: github.com/delas/pmbot

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Building a process mining startup with Raffaele Conforti: soundcloud.com/asideofdata/building-a-process-mining-startup-with-raffaele-conforti

New decade for process mining with Wil van der Aalst: soundcloud.com/asideofdata/new-decade-for-process-mining-with-wil-van-der-aalst
Apr 12, 202046:16
Building a process mining startup with Raffaele Conforti

Building a process mining startup with Raffaele Conforti

In this episode of A Side Of Data I interview Raffaele Conforti about his experience of building an Australian process mining startup Process Diamond.

Show notes:

2:00 What is process mining for the startup focusing on process mining software
3:30 How do you make a difference between process mining in comparison to data mining and machine learning with clients.
5:00 Is BPM an important for process mining projects?
6:00 Why would you develop a new tool in comparison of using existing tools for consultancy?
9:30 Difference between BPMN and process map
12:00 Problems of a process map and more about BPM models
18:00 About process diamond capabilities
21:00 How can your software compete with more established competitors like Celonis?
22:00 Conformance checking in Process diamond
27:00 Alignment vs business level alignment solutions
29:00 BPMN and conformance checking results. How do they work together?
31:00 What is the story behind the startup?
33:00 Why doing startup in Australia is different to Europe and US
35:00 How is the startup status
36:00 How to get trial of the software
38:00 How much time do you spend on consulting vs coding the startup

Links to Raffaele page:
www.raffaeleconforti.com
Link to Process Diamond
processdiamond.com

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soundcloud.com/asideofdata/new-decade-for-process-mining-with-wil-van-der-aalst
Mar 08, 202043:07
Benefits of process mining and BPM with Jan Mendling

Benefits of process mining and BPM with Jan Mendling

In this episode of A Side of Data, I interview Jan Mendling about the use of process mining in business process management (BPM) initiatives. We talk about where the real benefit of process mining is when applied to real-world processes and where the limit is.

Jan is a professor at Vienna University of economics and business. He is a successful researcher in the field of information systems, business process management, and process mining, with over 400 research articles published. One of his famous works is 7 process modeling guidelines. He coauthored books, such as Wirtschaftsinformatik and Fundamentals of business process management, the latter is used as a textbook in over 230 educational institutions around the world.

We talk about:
2:00 What is bpm, what processes are and why they need to be managed
7:00 What are information systems
8:00 What is process mining - how the data from information systems is now useful
11:00 Process mining helps accomplish BPM objectives
14:00 How process mining helps process analysts
17:30 Is just seeing how the processes are important? How does it help process analyst. How can you justify price of process mining software?
25:00 Continuous monitoring and auditing with process mining (improvement projects)
27:00 Innovation vs incremental process improvement
34:00 Is there anything that process mining still cannot do in helping BPM?
37:00 Case study with an example of a customer loans
40:30 AB testing of business processes
43:00 What is the future of BPM vs process mining
46:00 is process mining only applicable in BPM scenario?
48:00 Resource recommendations to start with PM and BPM

Jan's page:
www.mendling.com/

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Feb 16, 202051:15
New decade for process mining with Wil van der Aalst

New decade for process mining with Wil van der Aalst

In this episode of A Side of Data, I interviewed Wil van der Aalst. He is among the most cited computer science researchers in the world with over 100.000 citations on google scholar and an h-index of 147. He published papers, books, founded conferences, and holds positions at several institutions including RWTH Aachen University, Technical University of Eindhoven, Queensland University of technology, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and others. In addition to academic success, he is also very well known in the industry. The companies that brought his research to the industry are Celonis, Fluxicon Disco, Process Gold, and many others. Because of his influence, he is called a godfather of process mining.

The questions range from the history of process mining, the process mining challenges and solutions, to the future, and various topics connected to the real-world use of process mining.

The episode of long, so here are some time ticks to guide you:
0:00 When was the first time term process mining - (workflow mining) used? How did it appear?
5:00 Why workflow management systems were failures at the end of the 90s
5:30 Process mining vs data mining, machine learning
8:30 What are the main developments in science and industry in the last 20 years]
18:00 Does the industry follow research or it develops also new methods? - doing process mining is not like making a project
21:00 Is process mining aimed at improving how processes work, or to observe how it performs.
23:00 What do you think will happen in the next 10 years to process mining vs what will happen,
34:20 Prescriptive monitoring, recommender systems?
36:00 Machine learning vs formal methods for the future of process mining
38:00 Blockchain, RPA, drift detection, Repairing process models, Data Privacy and process mining
51:00 Are there mistakes you regret in your academic work?
53:00 What recommendations can you give to young researchers
59:00 Questions from entrepreneurs, would you advise creating new tools?
1:05:00 Resources for studying process mining

Resources mentioned in the episode:
Wil's book:
www.springer.com/gp/book/9783662498507
MOOC: www.coursera.org/learn/process-mining

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Jan 26, 202001:09:04
Utilize all your data: using Data Lakes for enterprise big data management w/ Corinna Giebler
Dec 15, 201924:11
Conformance checking in detail w/ Josep Carmona
Nov 24, 201948:42
Process mining is what industry needs w/ Pol Schumacher
Nov 03, 201944:48
Intro to Blockchain Applications w/ Ingo Weber (Part 2)

Intro to Blockchain Applications w/ Ingo Weber (Part 2)

This is the second part of the interview. In this part of the interview with Ingo Weber we talk about his projects involving blockchain technology and discuss recommendations on how to understand if this technology fits any project at hand. Listen to the first part for the introduction to Ingo's work and introduction to blockchains.   We talk about what is blockchains, what is Ethereum and what it means to execute smart contracts. We touch topics of Business Process Management and how that can be connected and enhanced with blockchains.   Ingo Weber is Professor at TU Berlin, Besides, he is a Conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW Australia and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Swinburne University. He previously was Principal Research Scientist & Team Leader of the Architecture & Analytics Platforms (AAP) team at Data61, CSIRO in Sydney. He has published over 100 refereed papers and three books. His research interests include Business Process Management, Blockchain, Dependability, DevOps, and Artificial Intelligence / AI Planning   Read Ingo's book on blockchain: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030030346 Ingo Weber's page: http://imweber.de/publications.html Laava: https://www.laava.id Find A SIDE OF DATA on twitter: https://twitter.com/ASideOFData And on the web: asideofdata.com SEND us an email with suggestions: asideofdata@protonmail.com
Oct 13, 201920:48
Intro to Blockchain Applications w/ Ingo Weber (Part 1)

Intro to Blockchain Applications w/ Ingo Weber (Part 1)

In the first part of the interview with Ingo Weber we talk about how blockchain technology can enable disruptive change in organizations, including through innovating how the business processes are done.   We talk about what is blockchains, what is Ethereum and what it means to execute smart contracts. We touch topics of Business Process Management and how that can be connected and enhanced with blockchains.   Ingo Weber is Professor at TU Berlin, Besides, he is a Conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW Australia and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Swinburne University. He previously was Principal Research Scientist & Team Leader of the Architecture & Analytics Platforms (AAP) team at Data61, CSIRO in Sydney. He has published over 100 refereed papers and three books. His research interests include Business Process Management, Blockchain, Dependability, DevOps, and Artificial Intelligence / AI Planning   Read Ingo's book on blockchain: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030030346 Ingo Weber's page: http://imweber.de/publications.html   Find A SIDE OF DATA on twitter: https://twitter.com/ASideOFData And on the web: asideofdata.com SEND us an email with suggestions: asideofdata@protonmail.com
Oct 13, 201939:56
Declarative process modelling w/ Claudio Di Ciccio

Declarative process modelling w/ Claudio Di Ciccio

In this episode we talk with Claudio Di Ciccio about declarative process modelling, and adjacent topics in process mining.

Claudio Di Ciccio is an assistant professor with the Institute for Information Business at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria. His research interests include process mining, declarative process modelling, blockchains, and service oriented computing.

In 2015, his paper entitled “Ensuring Model Consistency in Declarative Process Discovery” has received the best paper award of the 13th conference on Business Process Management. In August 2018, he was Researcher of the Month of the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Recommended PhD theses:
Maja Pešić: “Constraint-based workflow management systems: shifting control to users”
doi.org/10.6100/IR638413
Johannes De Smedt: “Studies on Declarative Process Modeling and Its Relation to Procedural Techniques”
lirias.kuleuven.be/1834742

Online resources about MINERful
MINERful website: github.com/cdc08x/MINERful
MINERful wiki: github.com/cdc08x/MINERful/wiki

Slides:
Introductory slides on declarative process specifications: www.slideshare.net/cdc08x/introduction-to-the-declarative-specification-of-processes
Slides on declarative process discovery: www.slideshare.net/cdc08x/automated-discovery-of-declarative-process-models
Slides on declarative process discovery and reasoning: www.slideshare.net/cdc08x/declarative-specification-of-processes-discovery-and-reasoning

Claudio's website:
diciccio.net

Papers mentioned during the interview:
The one about activity-events matching (it’s open access!): doi.org/10.1007/s10270-017-0603-z
The one about process drift: arxiv.org/abs/1907.06386

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Sep 22, 201940:07
A Side Of Data - Visualizing event sequence data w/ Leo Zhicheng Liu

A Side Of Data - Visualizing event sequence data w/ Leo Zhicheng Liu

Today at A Side Of Data, Anton interviews Leo Zhicheng Liu - an information visualization and visual analytics researcher, who is currently working in the Creative Intelligence Lab at Adobe Research.    We talk about visualizing event sequence data. Today there is a lot of interest in this data type for clickstream data, customer journey mapping, medical domain, and process mining. Through his experience of working on many projects including Matrix Wave, SellTrend, CoreFlow, MAQUI(МАРКІ), and Patterns & Sequences, Leo discusses the principles, motivations, and guidelines of creating better visual representations of the data at hand.   Contact Leo via his web page: http://www.zcliu.org/ Leo's twitter: https://twitter.com/zcliu Leo's projects: Data Illustrator: https://twitter.com/dataillustrator CoreFlow: http://www.zcliu.org/coreflow/   Find A SIDE OF DATA on twitter: https://twitter.com/ASideOFData And on the web: asideofdata.com SEND us an email with suggestions: asideofdata@protonmail.com
Sep 01, 201937:33
Process Discovery algorithms w/ Sander Leemans
Aug 11, 201927:00
[mini] Intro to Process Mining: Data and Models
Jul 21, 201923:01
Conceptual modeling in AI, Big Data and Process mining w/ Henderik Proper and Stijn Hoppenbrouwers

Conceptual modeling in AI, Big Data and Process mining w/ Henderik Proper and Stijn Hoppenbrouwers

In this episode of Aside of data Henderik Proper and Stijn Hoppenbrouwers discuss about conceptual modeling, and how that relates to big data, process mining, BPM. Is conceptual modeling becoming obsolete? Or does it have an impact in the world of machine learning and AI? Why metadata is important? How do organizations benefit from building conceptual models? Reach Henderik at twitter @erikproper and Stijn @SHoppenbrouwers. Tweet to the show @ASideOfData
Jun 30, 201930:28
Real world use-cases of process mining with Moe Wynn

Real world use-cases of process mining with Moe Wynn

In this episode, I interview Moe Wynn, from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia about her experience of helping private companies and hospitals with Process mining. She explains a few practical use cases of how data methods helped actual organizations to find problems in their processes. Additionally, we discuss data quality issues that basically every process mining project encounters and talk about recommendations on what to think about when setting up the ERP system to enable better data analysis afterward.
Jun 09, 201938:37
A Side Of Data - Introduction

A Side Of Data - Introduction

This is the introductory episode of A Side Of Data podcast that aims to introduce the listener to the soul of the later episodes. This podcast is all about using data to bring real value and insights through data science, process mining, data visualization algorithms, and going beyond data, to make more sense by the conceptual modeling, BPM, etc. Welcome to the podcast!

Thank you Danial Foroughi for creating an amazing podcast intro
Jun 09, 201904:03