Month: September 2020

Can You Tell Someone’s Gender Based on Tweets?

Predicting someone’s demographic attributes based on limited amount of information available is always a hot topic. It is common to use people’s name, ethnicity, location, and pictures for training models that can tell gender. Can you actually guess someone’s gender only based on what they share on Twitter? We will explore this using NLP techniques in this article.

At the end we conclude that it is quite a challenge to predict someone’s gender only using a single tweet. However, by combining prediction results from many tweets of the same person (similar to ensemble techniques like bagging), we may reach much better performance.

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What Skills Do You Need to Become an HR Analyst

For work reasons, I have opportunities to interact with HR analysts everyday. I am always curious what skills one would need to become an HR analyst.

Below is an HR Analyst job summary from SHRM.org. Other names for HR Analyst include People Analytics Analyst, Workforce Analytics Specialist, Data Analyst – People Analytics, etc.

The Human Resource (HR) Analyst will collect, compile, and analyze HR data, metrics, and statistics, and apply this data to make recommendations related to recruitment, retention, and legal compliance.

SHRM.org

To become an HR analyst, one needs to have the HR-related domain knowledge. This topic will be explored in another article. Here we will just focus on technical skills, general skills, and education.

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