Ludek’s Blog About People Analytics


Ludek's Blog About People Analytics

Big consultancies in the skills semantic space

skills
skills taxonomy
consulting
embeddings

A quick experiment showing how transformer-based embeddings can reveal the semantic identity of major consulting firms within a skill taxonomy.

Testing my genAI skepticism

agentic ai
data analysis
gewnerative ai
data science

About my hands-on test of agentic AI in data analysis.

Conspiracy theories as a specific example of overfitting?

bayesian brain hypothesis
computational psychiatry
cognitive science
data science
conspiracy theories
anxiety

An interesting perspective on the nature of conspiracy theories, in the spirit of the book 'Algorithms to Live By' from Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths.

Agentic AI for visual data exploration

agentic ai
generative ai
corporate culture
employee experience
glassdoor

For those who might be interested, I'm sharing an output from my experimentation with agentic AI for data insights democratization.

Can genAI help people managers lead better?

leadership
leadership effectiveness
leadership judgement indicator
generative ai

Sharing results from testing genAI’s leadership judgment.

The hidden trade-offs in corporate culture?

corporate culture
psychometric network analysis
employee experience
glassdoor

Exploration of the CultureX data on corporate culture using psychometric network analysis.

Dimensional Traits vs. Personality Types

personality
big five
ipip
typology
clustering
dimensionality reduction
psychometrics

Sharing an interactive dataviz showing why cramming the complexity of personality into a few types just doesn’t work.

When to forgive, when to close the book

nerd rant
thinking out loud
p-values

A short rant-ish post about trust, mistakes, and knowing when to stop reading.

Big Five vs. HEXACO

personality
big five
hexaco
predictive validity
job performance
counterproductive work behavior

Is one of them actually better at predicting work behavior?

Want to maximize your impact as a leader?

leadership effectiveness
causal inference

Forget the CEO chair and become a sports coach or a politician in an autocracy instead 🙃

Adjusting priors on your “emotional radar” for smoother cross-cultural encounters

expressiveness
cross-cultural differences

On interesting research that may come in handy during summer vacations abroad.

Tracking talent moves in the (in)famous 9-box grid over time

data visualization
talent management

Crowdsourcing ideas for effective ways to visualize talent moves in the 9-box grid over time.

Happy today, richer tomorrow?

happiness research
positive psychology
life satisfaction
causal inference

☀️ As many of us now take a summer break to recharge and boost our happiness, here’s some good news: it might even pay off financially 🤑

How personality risks co-occur?

leadership risks
derailers
hogan assessment
hogan development survey
personality psychology
psychometrics
network analysis

Some highlights from exploring a larger sample of Hogan Development Survey data.

What does a typical people manager value chain look like?

people management
manager
value chain

Sharing a working draft of a people manager value chain—mapping how specific manager actions drive people outcomes, team performance, and ultimately business results. Feedback and suggestions welcome 🙂

When self-selected behavior is a blessing, not a headache

measurement
self-selection
proxy measures
employee data
behavioral data

Self-selection as a measurement opportunity?

Are you crazy enough and in the right way to fit the craziness required by your job?

job fit
career advisory
cognitive biases

Listing some key takeaways from an insightful article by Adam Mastroianni on job fit.

Using Doppelgänger for career pathing?

career pathing
causal inference

Exploring an idea around using counterfactual and hypothetical scenarios to help employees navigate their career options.

ONA as a tool for exploring the skill space in your company?

skills
skills-based organization
organisational network analysis
network analysis
career pathing
learning and development

As we move toward a skill-based organization at Sanofi, it prompted me to think about new opportunities for applying Organizational Network Analysis (ONA).

Novel way to measure leadership skills via causal inference (and AI)?

leadership
psychometrics
assessment
causality
ai
llm
ai agent

A post about a new, potentially useful method for measuring leadership skills, along with complementary findings highlighting the importance of objective, skill-based selection of future leaders.

An interactive demo of Computerized Adaptive Testing

psychometrics
item response theory
computerized adaptive testing
bayesian statistics
streamlit
python

Sharing a byproduct of my recent efforts to learn Streamlit—an interactive demo that might be useful for anyone teaching psychometrics or simply curious about how modern psychometrics (relatively speaking 😉) works.

Talk vs. Walk: Predictors of staying intentions vs. actual quitting behavior

attrition
retention
attitude-behavior gap
predictive analytics

Is there a gap between what predicts employees' stated intentions to stay with their organization and their actual quitting behavior? And if so, how big is it?

Beyond prediction: Exploiting organizational events for causal inference in people analytics

causal inference
experiments
data science
people analytics
hr analytics
python
r

Sharing an article I co-authored with Cole Napper on causal inference in people analytics.

Can a simple algorithm read your personality from your face?

personality
big five
deep neural networks
convolutional neural networks
machine learning
python
r

A post describing a small experiment on ML-based recognition of personality traits from facial photographs, inspired by an older research paper that explored the use of composite images to assess the accuracy of personality attributions to faces.