Reflection – Visualization 

 Challenge & Selection 

 I was a member of work group in my organization , which was responsible for introduction of a   new data source for financial reports in our company . This process affects many people from   different departments of our company and some people from outsourcing company . Our   purpose was to find out what data is available , how good was it and how we could connect our   current financial reports system with a new data source . 

 I chose the visualization design thinking tool as it perfectly suited for organizing that process from   scratch . It helped us get a clear understanding of what we have had , describe any possible ways   of solution of our problem , choose the most appropriate way from proposed variants and to   control and improve the final result . 

 Application 

 We started the process by drawing the current scheme of loading and transforming data for   financial reporting , indicating all intermediate databases , deadlines and participants in that   process . That made it possible to see clearly with whom and with what we will have to work . 

 Than we changed the initial data source and tried to adapt our scheme with various options so   as to choose the most optimal option in terms of completeness and accuracy of data , deadlines   and the necessary IT resource for changes . 

 When all necessary changes were ready and transferred to the production system , we returned   to the scheme to find bottlenecks that could not be identified during development for further   improvement of the process . 

 Insight & Approach 

 By using visualization , even at the stage of the discussion of future development , we were able   to identify most of the difficulties that we may encounter , for example , the lack of necessary data   transformation mappings , which due to that were created in a timely manner . Visualization also   helped us to immediately identify all persons with whom it was necessary to agree on changes ,   which made it possible not to delay the development process due to such formalities . In addition ,   in the process of visualization , certain archaic processes were identified , the rejection of which   made it possible to speed up the readiness of financial statements by 1 w.d . 

 When I have discovered how helpful and convenient design thinking in general and visualization   in particular could be I start trying to motivate my coworkers using it in their project even if at   first sight , the process does not look like something where you can apply design thinking . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Reflection – Visualization 

 Challenge & Selection 

 I was a member of work group in my organization , which was responsible for introduction of a   new data source for financial reports in our company . This process affects many people from   different departments of our company and some people from outsourcing company . Our   purpose was to find out what data is available , how good was it and how we could connect our   current financial reports system with a new data source . 

 I chose the visualization design thinking tool as it perfectly suited for organizing that process from   scratch . It helped us get a clear understanding of what we have had , describe any possible ways   of solution of our problem , choose the most appropriate way from proposed variants and to   control and improve the final result . 

 Application 

 We started the process by drawing the current scheme of loading and transforming data for   financial reporting , indicating all intermediate databases , deadlines and participants in that   process . That made it possible to see clearly with whom and with what we will have to work . 

 Than we changed the initial data source and tried to adapt our scheme with various options so   as to choose the most optimal option in terms of completeness and accuracy of data , deadlines   and the necessary IT resource for changes . 

 When all necessary changes were ready and transferred to the production system , we returned   to the scheme to find bottlenecks that could not be identified during development for further   improvement of the process . 

 Insight & Approach 

 By using visualization , even at the stage of the discussion of future development , we were able   to identify most of the difficulties that we may encounter , for example , the lack of necessary data   transformation mappings , which due to that were created in a timely manner . Visualization also   helped us to immediately identify all persons with whom it was necessary to agree on changes ,   which made it possible not to delay the development process due to such formalities . In addition ,   in the process of visualization , certain archaic processes were identified , the rejection of which   made it possible to speed up the readiness of financial statements by 1 w.d . 

 When I have discovered how helpful and convenient design thinking in general and visualization   in particular could be I start trying to motivate my coworkers using it in their project even if at   first sight , the process does not look like something where you can apply design thinking .
### Output: 