People / HR Analytics is:•Where Data Science meets HR•Where HR Management and Decision Making can be based on, driven by, and transformed by dataFor many, if not most HR professionals in organizations - this is NOT HR ‘business as usual’.“Doing HR Analytics - A Practitioner’s Handbook With R Examples” seeks to cut through the jargon and hype that currently accompanies the current state of this field. It provides the reader with good foundational definitions and concepts, a suggested ‘known’ analytics framework, and practical illustrative examples of how to make use of analytics to address typical HR issues. Its purpose is to get you to think informationally about ‘all’ of HR. The enclosed examples just ‘scratch the surface’ of what is possible.