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## Analyze and Visualize Workplace Analytics data
This is an R package for analyzing and visualizing data from Microsoft Workplace Analytics.
This is an R package for analyzing and visualizing data from [Microsoft Workplace Analytics](https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/partners/workplaceanalytics).
## Design Principles
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- **Practical**: the functions should prioritise delivering against the most frequently used outputs and analyses.
- **Consistency**: functions should share a broadly consistent set of input arguments and naming conventions. This will help minimise unexpected results and errors when using the package.
- **Parsimony**: in creating the package, as much of the existing code should be re-used if possible to minimise duplication of work and to make analysis reproducible.
- **Tidy**: the functions from the package are designed to be consistent with tidy principles, and work well with a {dplyr} pipe workflow.
- **Tidy**: the functions from the package are designed to be consistent with tidy principles, and work well with a **dplyr** pipe (`%>%`) workflow.
## What you can do with this package
## With the **wpa** package, you can...
- Run analysis and visualisations off WpA data with prebuilt settings for HR variables, privacy threshold, etc.
- Create pre-designed ggplot visualisations that can be further customised, or inserted straight into your analysis flow as required
- Generate interactive HTML reports that summarise a dimension of your WpA data, such as **collaboration**.
1. **Run prebuilt analysis and visualizations** off Workplace Analytics data with settings for HR variables, privacy threshold, etc.
2. **Generate prebuilt interactive HTML reports**, which cover specific areas e.g. collaboration, connectivity
3. Leverage **advanced analytics functions**, such as text mining and hierarchical clustering, which are built for Workplace Analytics metrics
4. Integrate analysis of Workplace Analytics data with your R workflow seamlessly
<img src="man/figures/output.gif" align="center" width=80% />
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### Installing the package from GitHub
You can install **wpa** from GitHub with the following:
```
```R
# Check if devtools is installed, if not then install it
if(!"devtools" %in% installed.packages()){
install.packages("devtools")
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```
### Examples
The package comes shipped with a Standard Query dataset (`sq_data`), so you can start exploring functions without having to read in any data. Most functions in {wpa} share a consistent API, and enable you to return results for both a **plot** or a **table** (data frame):
The package comes shipped with a sample Standard Query dataset (`sq_data`), so you can start exploring functions without having to read in any data. Most functions in **wpa** share a consistent API, and enable you to return results for both a **plot** or a **table** (data frame):
```R
collaboration_sum(sq_data, return = "plot")
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## :package: Package Structure
There are three main types of functions in **wpa**:
1. Standard Analysis
2. Report Generation
3. Advanced / Support Functions
### 1. Standard Analysis
**Standard Analysis** functions are the most common type of functions in **wpa**. They typically accept a data frame as an input (usually requiring a Standard Person Query), and can return either a pre-designed graph as a ggplot object, or a summary data table as a data frame.
Examples:
- `collaboration_dist()`
- `meeting_summary()`
- `email_trend()`
- `mgrrel_matrix()`
### 2. Report Generation
**Report Generation** functions are a special class of functions within **wpa** which outputs an interactive HTML report on a specific area based on the data you supply.
**Examples:**
- `collaboration_report()`
- `capacity_report()`
- `coaching_report()`
- `connectivity_report()`
- `meeting_tm_report()`
- `validation_report()`
### 3. Advanced / support functions
This final group consists of miscellaneous functions which either perform a specific piece of analysis (e.g. computing the Information Value score), or are designed to be used with Standard Analysis functions.
A significant example of this is `export()`, which you can use with a Standard Analysis function to:
- Copy a data frame to clipboard (which can be pasted into Excel)
- Save the generated plot as a PNG or a SVG image file
- Save the data frame to a CSV file
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## Vignette
You can browse the vignette by running the following in R: