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This chapter explains how event logs are generated by the execution of multiple instances of a business process. The kind of event logs that are used for process mining have a particular structure and can be stored in a text file. The chapter explains how to parse those files and read the event log using the Python programming language. The sorting of events in an event log is also discussed.
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Ferreira, D.R. (2017). Event Logs. In: A Primer on Process Mining. SpringerBriefs in Information Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56427-2_1
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