#ReducedErrors

[ahalts]

Top 5 Benefits of Automated Time and Attendance Systems for Businesses

In today’s fast-paced work environment, managing employee time and attendance manually can be both time-consuming and prone to errors. Automated time and attendance systems are revolutionizing how businesses track work hours, attendance, and productivity. These systems not only simplify processes but also bring a range of benefits to both management and employees. Here’s a look at the top five advantages that automated time and attendance systems can offer businesses.

1. Enhanced Accuracy and Reduced Errors

Manual time tracking can lead to errors in reporting, from simple mistakes to intentional time theft. Automated systems eliminate these issues by recording exact clock-in and clock-out times. With features like biometric scans, RFID badges, and mobile app tracking, these systems prevent common errors associated with manual inputs. Accurate tracking improves payroll processing, ensuring employees are paid correctly for the time they work.

2. Streamlined Payroll Processing

Payroll can be a complex and time-intensive task, especially when calculations rely on manual timesheets. Automated systems simplify payroll by directly integrating time and attendance data with payroll software. This seamless integration reduces administrative hours, eliminates redundant data entry, and minimizes discrepancies, making payroll faster, more efficient, and less stressful for HR teams.

3. Improved Compliance with Labor Laws

Staying compliant with labor laws around work hours, overtime, and breaks can be challenging. Automated systems help businesses track these metrics accurately, ensuring they adhere to regulations. The system can flag overtime and break compliance issues and provide audit trails, which are helpful if there are any legal disputes. This feature can be particularly valuable for industries with strict labor regulations.

4. Boosted Employee Productivity and Accountability

Automated time tracking holds employees accountable by monitoring punctuality, attendance, and break times in real time. With a clear record of each employee’s hours, businesses can identify patterns, such as consistent tardiness or absenteeism, and address them proactively. This transparency fosters a culture of accountability and helps employees stay more focused and productive during work hours.

5. Real-Time Data and Reporting

Automated systems provide real-time data and analytics, enabling managers to make data-driven decisions. With detailed reports on attendance, overtime, and shift management, employers gain insights into workforce patterns and can optimize scheduling to meet demand. Real-time data helps businesses be more agile and responsive, which is especially beneficial in dynamic industries like retail, hospitality, and manufacturing.

Conclusion

Automated time and attendance systems offer a wide range of benefits, from improving accuracy and compliance to enhancing productivity and streamlining payroll. By adopting these systems, businesses can create a more efficient and transparent work environment, saving time and resources. Investing in an automated time and attendance solution ultimately empowers businesses to manage their workforce more effectively, leading to greater success and growth.

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[cristinazaniol]

Task 1

DATA new; set '/home/u38101310/my_courses/ldierker/studenthealth.sas7bdat'; PROC SORT; BY depression;

ods graphics on; proc hpsplit seed=15531; class major gender depression ; model major = depression gender sleep weight smedia; grow entropy; prune reducederror;

RUN;

[curso-machine-learning]

Decision tree

I have used part of the data from de SAS code, modifying 2 parameters:

proc hpsplit seed=17777;

prune REDUCEDERROR;

The decision tree obtained is the next:

and with the next results from HPSPPLIT procedure:

Results:

A tree with only 4 split levels is created by using the REDUCEDERROR prune method, thus limiting the size of the tree while reducing the error rate. The rate of erroneous classification is 8.15%, with average standard error (ASE) of 5.43% for a 252 leaf tree.

[nhandyjr]

Predicting Political Party Membership using Outlook-On-Life Survey with Decision Trees

This decision tree analysis was conducted to test nonlinear relationships between a non-political subset of Outlook-On-Life (OOL) survey questions and the binary, target/predictor variable “Tea Party Membership” in 2012.

MODEL APPROACH:

Exactly 28 OOL questions served as possible explanatory variables in classification of responses to the question, “Tea Party Membership (TPM).”  Much care was taken to exclude questions pertaining to political parties, groups, or individuals related to the target variable (TeaParty_b) by either support or opposition.

THE CLASSIFICATION TREE:

The first question to split the sample was “9. Society has reached a point where blacks and whites have equal opportunity for achievement. (BWEqulOppty)”.  While TPM was slightly less than 2% of the universal sample (45/2294), those who strongly agree with this first question had a TPM rate of 9.7% (Node 2).  This 237-observation sample was split by the question “1. How optimistic are you will develop a serious and/or maritial relationship? (Optmsm_Rlshp_ntr), with 1 neutral TPM constituting the first terminal node,5.  Node 6 is split by “28. How do you rate undocumented immigrants? (RateUnDoc),” where ratings below 18.98/100 had a 15% TPM rate (Node B).  Those with higher ratings of undocumented workers and optimistic views for relationships had a TPM rate slightly below 3% (Node C).  

The larger hemisphere for the first split indicates participants who don’t strongly agree with “9. Society has reached a point where blacks and whites have equal opportunity for achievement (BWEqulOppty)” had a TPM rate of approximately 1%.  This group was subdivided by “26. How do you rate Blacks? (RateBlks)”.  Survey participants who rated Blacks below the threshold (48.95/100) had a TPM rate of 4% (Node 3).  This sample of 248 was split on “14. Discrimination against blacks is no longer a problem in the U. S. (NoBlkDiscrm)”, with those who agree having a 20% TPM rate, Node 8, the largest such rate of any node. Survey participants with higher ratings for Blacks were split by "10. Over the past few years, blacks have gotten less than they deserve. (BlksLTDeserve)” (Node 9/A).  

MODEL RESULTS:

Four iterations of the model, under various growth and pruning parameters, produced identical tree diagrams (above), confusion matrices and ROC curves, with a slight variation in variable importance (below).  The misclassification rate was 0.00% for each growth/prune parameter choice.

Gini growth parameter options with both C45 and Average-Squared-Error pruning methods varied slighting depending on how missing values were processed (”popular” (left) vs. “similar ” (right)).

options mprint mlogic symbolgen; ods graphics on;

%macro classtree(ds=, msopt= ,depvar=, growparm= ,pruneparm=);    proc hpsplit data=&ds assignmissing=&msopt seed=15531;    class TeaPartyMem_b  Optmsm_Rlshp Optmsm_Rlshp_ntr                                    Optmsm_Futr HardToOwnHome HardToRetire HardToCollege                      HardToWealth HardToBetterParents 

              BWEqulOppty  BlksLTDeserve  BlksNoFvrIIJO  BlksTryHarder                      SlavDiscrmHardForBlks  NoBlkDiscrm BlkTchFightDisc 

              BlkWomEffect_b    BlkTchAvdStyp BlkTchCrflPol

              TrustPolice   ClassFam    USCit_b  MilitaryHHAct_b ; model &depvar = Optmsm_Rlshp Optmsm_Rlshp_ntr Optmsm_Futr HardToOwnHome HardToRetire HardToCollege HardToWealth HardToBetterParents   BWEqulOppty BlksLTDeserve BlksNoFvrIIJO BlksTryHarder SlavDiscrmHardForBlks NoBlkDiscrm BlkTchFightDisc BlkWomEffect_b BlkTchAvdStyp BlkTchCrflPol     TrustPolice ClassFam USCit_b MilitaryHHAct_b RateDrmPath_10 RatePplWelf_100   RateLatino_100 RateBlk_100 RateAsian_100   RateUnDoc_100 ; grow &growparm; prune &pruneparm; run; %mend classtree; /* POPULAR */ %classtree(ds=impy, msopt=popular, depvar=TeaPartyMem_b, growparm=gini, pruneparm=c45); %classtree(ds=impy, msopt=popular, depvar=TeaPartyMem_b, growparm=gini, pruneparm=reducederror); /* SIMILAR */ %classtree(ds=impy, msopt=similar, depvar=TeaPartyMem_b, growparm=gini, pruneparm=c45); %classtree(ds=impy, msopt=similar, depvar=TeaPartyMem_b, growparm=gini, pruneparm=reducederror);