MA Thesis: Employee Turnover

Sam Corey

MA in Computational Social Science

The University of Chicago

Last updated: May 1, 2024

Necessary R packages

• tidyverse ~= 2.0.0
• readxl ~= 1.4.3
• here ~= 1.0.1
• survival ~= 3.5.5
• survminer ~= 0.4.9
• glmnet ~= 4.1.8
• caret ~= 6.0.94
• mlbench ~= 2.1.3.1
• reshape2 ~= 1.4.4
• ROCR ~= 1.0.11

Utilities file

utils.R

Contains functions that are accessed by various parts of the program

Pipeline

Generate aggregated files

Run the script: data_cleaning.R

Must be run before subsequent files

Run lasso regression

Run the notebook: one_year_predictions/logistic_regression.Rmd

Run decision tree classifier

Run the notebook: one_year_predictions/decision_tree.Rmd

Run survival anlaysis

Run the notebook: survival_analysis/survival_analysis.Rmd

Generate data visualizations

Run the script: data_visualization/make_plots.R

Must be run after the above files