How do I compare the data of Jira users?

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View detailed data for employees, candidates, requisitions, and more.

In the Compare room you will find a comparison grid that lets you surface data about subject members such as employees, candidates, and requisitions.

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By analyzing attributes side by side, you can answer time-sensitive questions like:

  • Should I make a counter offer to keep an employee from leaving?
  • Who is the best internal candidate to fill a new leadership position?
  • Do I have enough quality applicants for a requisition?

The sections in this topic describe how to analyze detailed data for employees in the Compare room.

To access Compare, on the navigation bar, click Compare .

The Compare workflow

  1. Add individual employees or groups to the comparison grid.
  2. Analyze employee attributes side by side to answer your business questions.
  3. Pin an employee to calculate the differences between attribute values and see how an individual stacks up against the group.

When you pin an employee, you are creating a baseline comparison:

  • If you want to compare an employee to their direct peers, pin an employee to calculate the individual differences between attribute values.
  • If you want to compare an employee to an employee group, pin an employee to visualize how the employee stacks up against the group. A Distribution visual is created to show how attribute values are distributed for a group. This allows you to assess whether an employee’s attribute value is above or below the median for the group.

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Use the comparison grid

Set up the comparison grid to surface data about employees, candidates, requisitions, and more in the Compare room.

You cannot change the time context; data presented in the Compare room is from the latest period.

Set up the comparison grid

  1. On the navigation bar, click Compare.

Tip: If you see employees in the comparison grid, click the Reset button to start over.

  1. In the Subject list, click Employee.
  2. In the Search box, type a name and select the employee from the search results.
  3. By default, only active subject members will be included in the search results. If you want to analyze a former employee in the Compare room, change the filter in the upper-left corner of the search results from Active Employees to All.

    A greyed out photo indicates an inactive subject member in the Compare room. The word inactive will also be appended to their name.
    Result: The comparison grid appears.

Open the Compare to panel

  • Click the Add comparison button on the Visual Actions menu.

Add an employee to the comparison grid

  • In the Compare to panel, type a name in the Search box and select the employee from the search results.
    By default, only active subject members will be included in the search results. If you want to analyze a former employee in the Compare room, change the filter in the upper-left corner of the search results from Active Employees to All.

A greyed out photo indicates an inactive subject member in the Compare room. The word inactive will also be appended to their name.

You can also add employees to the comparison grid outside of the Compare room by doing one of the following:

  • In View Details select the subject member you want to add to the Compare room. In the column header, click the More actions button > Add to compare.
  • If your data point has five or fewer members in the population, you can quickly add employees to the Compare room in the Members section in the Insights tab of the Info panel.
    • To add an individual employee to the Compare room, click the More actions button > Add to Compare.
    • To add all employees at once to the Compare room, click Add all to Compare.

Note: For the Members section to appear, the following criteria must be met:

  • Users must have the View Details capability.
  • There must be five or fewer members in the population for the selected data point.
  • The visual does not contain any comparisons. For example, the Members section will not appear if you are comparing metrics or groups.
  • The visual does not contain any metrics that use a calculation concept. For example, Total Cost of Workforce or Movement metrics.

Add a group to the comparison grid

To fully understand a situation, you should compare an individual against their direct peers, their employee group, and similar employees across the business. You can manually define the group or have one automatically generated for you.

Tip: To view a list of subject members or event occurrences that make up a group, click View details in the column header.

Create and add a group

  1. In the Compare to panel, click Group.
  2. Click Add filter.
  3. In the Filter picker, select the attribute values that define the population.
  4. When finished, click Apply.
  5. Optional: Repeat steps 2 to 4 to add additional filters.
  6. Click Add.

Add a similar group (find similar)

Automatically generate and add a group with similar attributes to an individual in the comparison grid.

Note:

  • The set of attributes (important properties) that are considered when finding a similar group can be customized in the studio experience.
    • By default these attributes have been configured for the Employee subject. Contact Visier Technical Support to customize the set of attributes for each subject.
    • To customize the set of attributes, select the Important Properties for the subject (Applicant, Employee, Requisition) in the Population tab of an analytic object. For more information, see Configure populations.
  • The similar group will only draw from the subject members (employees) that you have access to.

How Visier finds similar groups

To train our Similarity Model, Visier’s algorithm examines your historical data to determine how attribute values are related to each other. For example, when looking at the historical data for the Job Name attribute, we observed the movement of 50 Junior Software Developers. 48 of them became Senior Software Developers and 2 became Product Managers. As a result, the algorithm considers Junior Software Developers to be more related to Senior Software Developers than Product Managers. The model will use this information to identify similar subject members.

  1. In the Compare to panel, click Similar Group.
  2. Optional: Select the employee that you want the similar group to be based on. The first member in the comparison grid will automatically be selected as the member of interest. If there are multiple employees in the comparison grid, you can select the employee that you want to find a similar group for from the Based on list.

Note:

  • The employee must be in the comparison grid.
  • The employee must be an active employee during the selected time period.

  1. Optional: Narrow the scope population by clicking the Create the population button in the Drawn from box. The scope population is the subset of members that will be considered when generating the similar group. For example, if you only want to find similar employees in the US, you can add a filter for Location Hierarchy: United States.

  2. Click Add filter in the Narrow the population panel.

  3. In the Filter picker, select the attribute values that define the population.

  4. When finished, click Apply.

  5. Repeat steps a to c to add additional filters.

  6. Click Save changes.

  7. Click Add in the Add similar group panel.
    Result: The model will take into account the attributes (important properties) selected in the studio experience, the member of interest, and your data access to find a similar group. If you get the Too many members drawn from all members error message, you must add filters to narrow the scope population.

Remove an employee or group from the comparison grid

In the column header, click the More actions button and then click Remove.

Add or remove attributes

  • Click the Settings button on the Visual Actions menu.

Rearrange the comparison grid

  • In the column header, click the Move icon , and drag the column to the desired position.

Reset the comparison grid

  • To clear the comparison grid and start over, click the Reset button .

Calculate differences between attribute values

Pin a subject member to calculate the differences between other subject members and groups in the comparison grid. The subject member is used as the baseline for the comparisons. The difference from the group median is calculated for the subject member when comparing a subject member to a group.

  • In the column header of the employee you want to use as the baseline for your comparison, click Pin to compare.


Result: Attribute values are replaced in the comparison grid. Calculated differences will appear for individual comparisons and Distribution visuals will appear for group comparisons.

Tip:

  • Click the Distribution button to expand the visual.
  • Hover over the calculated values to find more information about the data point.

Capture the comparison grid

  • Click the Capture button on the Visual Actions menu.