The Fundamentals of People Analytics: With Applications in R

People Analytics (also known as HR Analytics or Workforce Analytics) refers to the analysis of data from human resources (human capital) in conjunction with other company data. People Analytics is based on research fields such as social psychology, motivational psychology and behavioral science as well as business intelligence, predictive analytics and big data.

This open access book prepares current and aspiring analytics professionals to effectively address this need by curating key concepts spanning the entire analytics lifecycle, along with step-by-step instructions for their applications to real-world problems, using ubiquitous and freely available open-source software.

This book does not assume prior knowledge of statistics, how to query databases, or how to write performant code; early chapters include an introduction to R and SQL as well as an overview of statistical foundations.