People analytics: Analysing the data

Author: Graham Brown

Contributing author: Sarah Thompson

Overview

This series of Leading practice guides discusses how HR teams can use people analytics to generate insights and inform business decisions.

In this guide, we explore the process of data analysis, which occurs after the data has been gathered and cleaned. There are three main stages of data analysis, which are:

• reporting, which looks at what happened;
• further analysis, which looks at why it happened, providing context for the results; and
• predictive analytics, which looks at what could happen in the future.

Other guides in the series:

• People analytics: The core elements
• People analytics: Readying the HR function for people analytics
• People analytics: Identifying the objectives of the project
• People analytics: Deciding what to measure
• People analytics: Collecting data
• People analytics: Communicating and acting on the findings
• People analytics: Measuring success
• People analytics: Data protection