ULS and PDI meet to share experiences in large volumes of data analysis

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Professionals from the ULS Institutional Analysis Office were in charge of guiding the workshop where they showed the PDI team the software and hardware tools and the evolution of large volumes of data analysis strategies.

Within the framework of the “BIG DATA ULS: Digital Transformation of the Coquimbo Region” project, which was awarded by the University of La Serena in December 2018, through the Mineduc Regional Higher Education financing line - which seeks to transfer information products for effective decision-making among agents of the regional territory - is that the Director and professionals of the Directorate of Strategic Development and Quality (DIDEC) of the study house met with officials from the Criminal Analysis Office of the Elqui Provincial Prefecture of the Investigative Police, with the clear purpose of sharing experiences and working collaboratively in the analysis of large volumes of data.

pdi 2On the occasion, DIDEC professionals showed the tools used for data analysis - a unit that has already been in operation for 9 years - and that has specialized in working with large volumes of data and information, from the use of analytics and business intelligence hardware and software for these processes, as well as the organization of analysis model designs.

For the Director of Strategic Development and Quality of the ULS, Dr. César Espíndola, “this instance is another important opportunity for the University of La Serena to link and share knowledge with the institutions of the regional territory, since as well as the PDI there are others institutions that, from their own functions, are also faced with working with large volumes of information and are collaborating in this project. Thus, on this day we have held a specific workshop to present the analysis work and the strategies that each of the institutions carries out based on their objectives."

The manager added that “this work day constitutes the first step in a relationship of collaboration and exchange of technical experience and technological transfer in modeling, analysis, collection and processing of information with the tools used by each unit and that is projected in the framework of the execution of the BIG DATA ULS initiative and is part of the digital transformation agenda of this house of higher education, adopting it as a tool to improve both its academic and administrative management processes.”

The Government has placed special emphasis on the Digital Transformation Agenda, which will continue with the progress made in the so-called Digital Agenda 2020, which will integrate new measures, with a focus on accelerating the process of appropriation and use of technologies in all sectors. areas of action of society.

pdi 3It is for the above reason that the PDI has also joined this challenge, where data analysis is of vital importance for the institution, since they have a Criminal Analysis Center in Santiago; However, they are also providing analysis capabilities to the different provinces and communes. Since then, for a year now the prefecture has had an analysis office that is working on training its analysts and installing processes and management of information processing and, in this task, which is an innovation task of the PDI itself, they are “looking for strategic allies that will allow us to accelerate this work.”

Regarding the approach to the police institution, Dr. Espíndola stated that “it is an exercise that is being replicated in different parts of the country, but the Elqui Provincial PDI is a pioneer in this approach to a higher education institution, and as a university of the State of Chile we are available within the framework of this initiative where the ULS shares knowledge to improve the well-being of people.”

The person in charge of the Elqui Provincial PDI Analysis Office, Deputy Commissioner José Fuentes, highlighted that “for us this meeting has been very beneficial, exploring a new area and where the University of La Serena has been a reference from the point of view of analysis of information. The ULS has experience and we, through the Analysis Office, are taking the recommendations of professionals.”

Both institutions were committed to continuing with the workshops and holding practical meetings, where professionals from the ULS Institutional Analysis Office will be in charge of guiding the police officers who today perform tasks in analysis and processing of large volumes of data.

Written by Patricia Castro, DirCom