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nickblackbourn/README.md

👋 Hi, I’m Nick

Head of Process Intelligence (UK) at Capgemini Invent.

I work at the intersection of process, data, and AI system design — helping organisations turn raw operational data into something both humans and machines can reason about.

My background is in process mining and event-log engineering, but my broader interest is architectural:
how you design operational systems that are explainable, auditable, and AI-ready, without relying on fragile, vendor-specific abstractions.

This GitHub is where I explore those ideas through small, practical projects: worked examples, minimal pipelines, and early architectural experiments.


🔧 Selected Projects

Process & Event-Log Engineering

  • Open-source end-to-end process mining pipelines
    Minimal implementations showing how raw operational data becomes event logs and models — outside of any specific vendor tool.

  • NFL process mining examples
    A concrete, end-to-end worked example that treats an event log as a designed dataset, using public sports data to make process concepts tangible.

  • Synthetic event-log generation
    Tools for creating realistic process behaviour to support demos, training, and early-stage solution design.

Operational Data Readiness

  • Process Intelligence data assessment tools
    Lightweight scripts that explore how teams assess data quality and structure before analytics or automation begins.

Business Concepts & AI Systems (Experimental)

  • Process semantic layer (PoC)
    An experiment exploring whether lightweight business concepts can make retrieval-based AI systems more explainable and auditable — without heavyweight semantic modelling.

🧭 What I’m Exploring

Across these projects, I’m increasingly focused on how explicit business concepts and rules can act as a shared layer between:

  • operational data,
  • human decision-making,
  • and AI agents.

In particular, I’m interested in whether this layer can be made easy enough to work with that it becomes practical for real organisations — not just technically elegant.


If you’re interested in AI system design grounded in real operational work, or how process thinking translates into the AI era, feel free to explore or connect.

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  1. open-source-end-to-end-process-mining open-source-end-to-end-process-mining Public

    Minimal, open-source end-to-end process mining pipeline using a real database, SQL/Python transformations, event-log export, and PM4Py process discovery.

    Python 2 1

  2. Synthetic-Event-Log-Generator-for-Process-Mining Synthetic-Event-Log-Generator-for-Process-Mining Public

    This tool generates synthetic event logs for process mining and process intelligence use cases.

    Python 1 1

  3. Process-Intelligence-Data-Assessment-Assistant Process-Intelligence-Data-Assessment-Assistant Public

    Experimental Python tool for assessing raw data readiness for process mining and event-log generation

    Python

  4. nfl-process-mining nfl-process-mining Public

    Worked example: converting NFL play-by-play into a process-mining event log using SQL + Python

    Python