People analytics is a rapidly growing discipline of interest to businesses. With access to more data and new visualisation and analytical tools a wide range of companies are beginning to apply mathematical, statistical, data mining and other OR techniques to HR and business data to try and understand and resolve HR-related business problems, such as:

• Workforce modelling
• Diversity and inclusion
• People surveys
• Talent management
• Paybill modelling
• Performance management
• Estates modelling
• Workplace Analytics
• Wellbeing

The aim of this group is to share knowledge and best practise, and to promote more widely the use of OR techniques in the area of HR decision making. Alongside this, the group provides a forum for members to explore new thinking and techniques applicable to HR, as well as some of the challenges faced in using HR data and working with HR professionals.

Our most recent events

Our last meeting (including our AGM) was held on 22nd June 2021 via a virtual meeting. The slides presented by the speakers, plus notes from the meeting are in the document list below.

The topic for the meeting was the return to the office workplace, and how People Analytics is and will be contributing to that.

Forthcoming events

We plan to host a series of webinars during 2021 - please get in touch using the contact form if you are interested in speaking, or have ideas for topics you would like to see covered.

At our next webinar, in the morning of 21st October 2021, developers and data scientists in the DAS Analytics + Foresight Hub will talk to us about how they created a suite of tools to showcase the utility of job vacancy descriptions for providing insight into workforce skill requirements within a public sector organisation. More details and a link to book will follow in an email, and will be available here soon.

We have an outline of plans for the next 12 months. In addition to the webinars, these an interactive networking event early in 2022, a meeting focusing on People Analytics applied to wellbeing and inclusion, and our AGM next summer.

Get involved

We are always interested in hearing from people interested in getting involved with the People Analytics SIG - please get in touch using the contact form if you would like to find out more about the group or help organise an event.

Sign up for the mailing list below if you would like to be kept informed of events and meetings as they come up.

Committee details

Join us for our next event

People Analytics Event - Using Python’s Natural Language Processing Tools to Give Shape to Unstructured Healthcare Workforce Documents.

Thursday 21 October 2021 12.00 - 13.00

Speakers: Siôn Cave and Jerome Wynne, DAS Ltd

Register here

About the Event

Developers and data scientists in the DAS Analytics + Foresight Hub created a suite of tools to showcase the utility of job vacancy descriptions for providing insight into workforce skill requirements within a public sector organisation.

Our solution layers a Python web application embedding interactive visualisations on top of a selection of statistical tools for augmented search and summarisation of over 14,000 job descriptions, retrieved via a web scraper that snapshots a public sector recruitment website. The application allows the user to quickly navigate thousands of roles, to perceive recruitment trends by clustering roles according to job description, and to segment the workforce by scoring descriptions against user-specified skill profiles. Overall, our solution has the potential to enhance monitoring capability and support next-generation workforce allocation and planning.