Noteworthy data-driven analysis to identify the perfect location for the second headquarter of Amazon. Unexpectedly, an excellent example of HR Analytics.
As you might know, stack overflow is a website created for users passionate about programming to ask and answer questions. The website is full of data relevant to HR decisions. Through active participation, members can vote questions and answers up or down. Finally, they can edit questions and answers to improve readability.
Especially relevant, author Julia Silge, is a data scientist at Stack Overflow. Almost all her work involves analysing complex data sets and communicating technical topics. Finally worth mentioning, Julia is a co-author of the book “Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach”.
Statistical techniques used
The study makes use of several different techniques: cosine similarity,
principal component analysis and projection on a new special coordinate system.
I suggest you read the full blog article by clicking here or here below, It is an interesting read.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/02/28/evaluating-options-amazons-hq2-using-stack-overflow-data/