Contributor(s):Author: Shonna D. Waters PhdAuthor: Valerie StreetsAuthor: Lindsay McFarlaneThe need for HR professionals to understand and apply data analytics is greater than ever. Todays successful HR professionals must ask insightful questions, understand key terms, and intelligently apply data, but may lack a clear understanding of the many forms, types, applications, interpretations, and capabilities of HR analytics. HR Analytics provides a practical approach to using data to solve real HR challenges in organizations and demystifies analytics with clear guidelines and recommendations for making the business case, starting an HR analytics function, avoiding common pitfalls, presenting data through visualization and storytelling, and much more.