THE DEFINITIVE

People Analytics
Resource
Library
90+ data sets, reports,
videos and more
 Introduction
You now have 90+ essential People Analytics resources at Table of contents
your fingertips.
● Books
These resources were selected by Erik van Vulpen: a leader in
HR innovation and driving force behind the Analytics in HR Page 3

blog, now part of AIHR.com. He has used his expertise to create ● Examples and data sets
a list of articles, reports, videos and more. With the resources Page 7
gathered in this guide, you will have the data and insights you ● Practical articles
need to take your People Analytics knowledge, initiatives, and Page 9
results to the next level.
● Academic papers
To view the resources, simply click the link provided in this Page 12
guide. With the exception of the books and some of the ● Reports
academic resources, everything included in this Page 16
repository is free to access.
● Standards and definitions
Page 18

● Videos
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● Courses
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 Books
The People Analytics books in our list help you
understand the basics of HR analytics, its
financial impact on your organization, and how
to use it to drive better results.

Each of these made a profound impact on how

the people analytics field has developed. The
books on our list also contain concrete
examples and case studies to enable you to
put theory into practice.

Clicking on the links will take you to a

web store.

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 Books
The basics of People Analytics
● HR Analytics Handbook ● Doing HR Analytics – A Practitioner’s Handbook

● Calculating Success: How the New Workplace With R Examples

Analytics Will Revitalize Your Organization ● Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy

● Introduction to People Analytics: A Practical Execution and Organizational Effectiveness

Guide to Data-Driven HR Human capital

● People Analytics for Dummies ● Investing in People: Financial Impact of Human
● The Practical Guide to HR Analytics: Using Data Resource Initiatives
to Inform, Transform, and Empower HR ● The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not Intuition, Is
Decisions the Key to Unlocking Human Potential
● Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy ● Optimize Human Capital Investments: Make the
Execution and Organizational Effectiveness "Hard" Business Case

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 Books
Case studies and examples
● Developing Human Capital: Using Analytics to ● Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That
Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Will Transform How You Live and Lead
Development Investments ● Transformative HR: How Great Companies Use
● Making Human Capital Analytics Work: Evidence-Based Change for Sustainable
Measuring the ROI of Human Capital Processes Advantage
and Outcomes ● The Power of People: Learn How Successful
● Victory Through Organization: Why the War for Organizations Use Workforce Analytics To
Talent is Failing Your Company and What You Improve Business Performance
Can Do About It

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 Books
HR metrics
● The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and ● Predicting Business Success: Using Smarter
Performance Analytics to Drive Results

● Employee Surveys That Work: Improving Design, ● People Analytics: How Social Sensing Technology
Use, and Organizational Impact Will Transform Business and What It Tells Us

● Data-Driven HR: How to Use Analytics and about the Future of Work

Metrics to Drive Performance

Predictive analytics
● Predictive HR Analytics: Mastering the HR
Metric

● Predictive Analytics for Human Resources

● Predicting Success: Evidence-Based Strategies to

Hire the Right People and Build the Best Team

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 Examples and data sets
You don't need to reinvent the wheel.

We've collected practical examples of how

organizations are using People Analytics to
inspire and inform your own projects.

And to help you hone your analytics skills, we

have compiled HR data sets, including
descriptions and exercises.

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 Examples and data sets
Examples Data sets
● 2018 SIOP Machine Learning Competition ● Datasets repository to practice and learn
Winning Submission Repository Programming, Machine Learning, and Data

● A Tutorial on People Analytics Using R – Science

Employee Churn ● 7 HR Data Sets for People Analytics

● Applying Survival Analysis to Reduce Employee

Turnover: A Practical Case

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 Practical articles
These are some of the most impactful and
actionable people analytics articles written in the
past decade. They include some older pieces that
have set the stage for people analytics and still
hold relevance today, as well more recent articles
covering the latest developments and insights.

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 Practical articles
Guides to HR analytics Analytics issues and solutions
● HR Analytics Implementation: A Step-by-Step ● How to Deal With Analysis Paralysis
Approach ● Ten Red Flags Signaling Your Analytics Program
● The 10 Golden Rules of HR Analytics Will Fail

● The 10 Golden Rules of HR Analytics (revisited) ● 5 Reasons Why HR Analytics Projects Fail

● The 10 Golden Rules of HR Analytics (crowd ● How to Ensure the Validity of People Analytics
version) Efforts?

● Analytics on HR Analytics: What Really Works

● Assessing Your HR Analytics Capability

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 Practical articles
Looking forward Miscellaneous
● A Call to Arms for the Future of People Analytics ● Case Study: How Google Uses People Analytics

● HR as a “Prediction Machine” ● They’re Watching You at Work

● HR Analytics: It’s Not a Fad. It’s the Future ● A Study Used Sensors to Show That Men and

● Are We There Yet? What’s Next for HR Women Are Treated Differently at Work

Annual roundups
● Top 40 HR & People Analytics Articles of 2018
Looking for more?
● The Best HR and People Analytics Articles of
Head over to the AIHR.com blog for more articles on
2019 People Analytics, Digital HR and more.

Visit the blog

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 Academic papers
This section lists the most-cited academic papers
on people analytics.

One of the difficulties when it comes to selecting

academic material is that publishing these
materials can take up to a few years. This means
that there is always a bit of lag between the
latest insights and these insights being published
by respectable journals.

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 Academic papers
HR Analytics reviews People Analytics guides
● An ROI-Based Review of HR Analytics: Practical ● HR Metrics and Analytics: Use and Impact
Implementation Tools ● HR Analytics as a Strategic Workforce Planning
● People Analytics – a Scoping Review of ● HR Analytics for Strategic Human Resource
Conceptual Boundaries and Value Propositions Management
● An Evidence-Based Review of HR Analytics ● The Rise (and Fall) of HR Analytics: a Study Into
Human capital the Future Applications, Value, Structure, and
System Support
● Competing on Talent Analytics

● Question for Your HR Chief: Are We Using Our

‘People Data’ to Create Value?

● The Paradox of Human Resource Analytics:

Being Mindful of Employees

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 Academic papers
Miscellaneous
● The Scientific Method ● Three-Way Complementarities: Performance

● Toward Evidence-Based HR Pay, HR Analytics and Information Technology

● Human Resource Predictive Analytics (HRPA) ● Learning From Practice: How HR Analytics

For HR Management In Organizations Avoids Being a Management Fad

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 Reports
We have compiled the most impactful reports
of the last five years. These reports show how
people analytics has evolved and is now being
embedded into traditional HR.

While in Deloitte’s 2016 and 2017 reports,

people analytics was mentioned explicitly, in
their 2018, 2019, and 2020 reports, it is hardly
(if at all) mentioned. Instead, people analytics
is assumed to be one of the core
HR activities.

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 Reports
People analytics reports
● Organizing for HR Analytics Success ● Trends and Practices in Talent Analytics

● Global Human Capital Trends: People Analytics ● People Analytics Solutions: Market Primer
Gaining Speed

● Global Human Capital Trends: People Analytics

Recalculating the Route

● Global Human Capital Trends: the Rise of the

Social Enterprise

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 Standards and definitions
HR standards are about specifying how HR
metrics should be measured and benchmarked to
create uniform data definitions. This includes the
quantities, formulas, and variables needed to
calculate and produce these measurements.

In other words, these are the foundations on

which you can build a powerful and effective
People Analytics operation.

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 Standards and definitions
ISO standards for HR
● ISO Standards for Human resource ○ ISO 30410:2018. Human resource
management overview management – Impact of hire metric

○ ISO 30405:2016. Human resource ○ ISO 30411:2018. Human resource

management – Guidelines on recruitment management – Quality of hire metric

○ ISO 30408:2016. Human resource ○ ISO 30414:2018. Human resource

management – Guidelines on human management – Guidelines for internal and
governance external human capital reporting

○ ISO 30409:2016. Human resource

management – Workforce planning

○ ISO 30406:2017. Sustainable employability

management for organizations

○ ISO 30407:2017. Human resource

management – Cost-Per-Hire
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 Standards and definitions
Standards and definitions
● HR Metrics Interpretation Guide Get more cheat sheets and guides
● How to Calculate Employee Turnover Rate If you're looking for even more resources to help you
take your HR organization to the next level, be sure to
● HR Software Reviews Repository
visit the AIHR resource library to find our growing
● Cost-per-hire, American National Standard library of free HR guides, cheat sheets and more.

● 51 HR Metrics Cheat Sheet

Browse free resources

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 Videos
Don't have the time or opportunity to read a book
or study a report right now, but still want to work
on expanding your People Analytics expertise?
These videos are packed with useful information
in a comprehensible, accessible format.

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 Videos
Videos
● What is HR Analytics? ● 5 HR Analytics Case Studies

● Creating Value Through HR Data & Analytics ● People Analytics: 5 Best Practices

● How Will Data Capturing Evolve in People ● Decoding Workforce Productivity

Analytics?

● What in People Analytics Are You Most Excited

About?

● 5 Key Characteristics of the Digital Workforce

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 Courses
Whether you are a seasoned People Analytics
specialist or an enthusiast new to the discipline,
there is always more to learn.

AIHR has a large offering of online courses and

certificate programs focusing on People
Analytics, equipping you with the skills and
knowledge that will help you drive a fact-based
approach to HR in your organization.

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 Courses
Courses Certificate programs
● People Analytics Strategy ● People Analytics Certificate Program

● HR Analytics Leader ● HR Metrics and Reporting Certificate Program

● Strategic HR Metrics

● HR Data Analyst

● HR Data Visualization More than People Analytics

● Statistics in HR From HR Strategy to L&D and beyond, AIHR offers a
growing catalog of online courses and certificate
● HR Data Science in R
programs that help HR professionals future-proof their
skill set.

Browse HR courses

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PEOPLE ANALYTICS CERTIFICATE
Take a deeper dive into People Analytics

Become a People Analytics specialist

The People Analytics Certificate Program enables you to

develop the skills, knowledge, and hands-on experience
needed to start heading People Analytics related projects.

Learn more

Type Online self-paced learning

Duration 40 hours

Structure 3 courses + capstone project

Digital certificate upon completion (including LI token)

Eligible for HRCI & SHRM credits

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