04 Oct

Calculate Employee Turnover the Easy Way

turnover_calcs_made_easy_short_version_with_comments.knit In today’s tutorial I show you how to calculate employee turnover from just three columns of data: employee id, start date, and the termination...

19 Jul

How to Make Your Own HR Analytics Reporting Template using R and RMarkdown

Today I want to give you a very basic HR analytics reporting template in RMarkdown. As a reminder, R Markdown (Rmd) files provide a convenient...

06 Jul

HR Analytics Pitfalls: 3 Simple Steps to Avoid Them

Many companies today have a fully dedicated HR analytics team, replete with data scientists, a solid budget, data access, and high-quality reporting tools that help...

26 Jun

The Golden Rule of HR Analytics: The Why and How for Beginners

Lots of companies now have a fully fledged HR analytics team and fairly mature reporting processes that help organizations make better people decisions. But what...

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04 Jun

How to Use the Pipes Function (%>%) in R: A Two-Minute Tutorial

The pipes function (you know, that funky "%>%" symbol in R) is an incredibly powerful tool for fast, efficient, and understandable R code. But many...

27 Feb

R for the Total Beginner: Basics of Column Selection and Row Filtering

https://youtu.be/Nne-oo_i2lY This installment for R for the Total Beginner teaches the basics of column selection and row filtering. We take the mystery out of the...

20 Apr

How to Avoid Aggregation Errors and Simpson’s Paradox in HR Analytics: Part 1

Recently I’ve been reading Scott Page’s masterful book “The Model Thinker”. It’s full of powerful insights so in this and future posts, I will be...

06 Apr

How to Break Down Your Turnover Data

Breaking Down Turnover In previous posts and video tutorials we covered how to calculate turnover from your raw HR data. Today, I’m going show you...

09 Feb

How to Calculate Monthly Turnover using R

A step-by-step tutorial for calculating monthly turnover using R. We include the code and detailed explanations for everything from filtering with dates, setting up logical...

31 Mar

Turnover: Why DO We Divide by the Average?

Turnover always commands the most attention in HR analytics. Yet, even for daily HR analytics practitioners, there seems to be a bit of mystery surrounding...

19 Dec

Descriptive HR Analytics, Part 2: Highlighting Data

As you have no doubt learned along your HR analytics journey, there is just no getting around the dirty work of data science, namely cleaning...

17 Jan

Why Measure Employee Engagement?

  With all of the froth around employee engagement, it’s important to ask why it might be so important. Is there a real reason to...

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