Linear attribute projection and performance assessment for signifying the absenteeism at work using machine learning

Abstract

In recent times, with the technological advancement the industry and organization are transforming all their inflow and outflow operations into digital identity. At the outset, the name of the organization is also in the hands of the employee. One of the major needs of the employee in the working environment is to avail leave or vacation based on their family circumstances. Based on the health condition and need of the employee, the organization must extend their leave for the satisfaction of the employee. The performance of the employee is also predicted based on the working days in the organization. With this view, this paper attempts to analyze the performance of the employee and the number of working hours by using machine learning algorithms. The Absenteeism at work dataset from UCI machine learning Repository is used for prediction analysis. The prediction of absent hours is achieved in three ways. Firstly, the correlation between each of the dataset attributes are found and depicted as a histogram. Secondly, the top most high correlated features are identified which are directly fitted to the regression models like Linear regression, SRD regression, RANSAC regression, Ridge regression, Huber regression, ARD Regression, Passive Aggressive Regression and Theilson Regression. Thirdly, the Performance analysis is done by analyzing the performance metrics like Mean Squared Error, Mean Absolute Error, R2 Score, Explained Variance Score and Mean Squared Log Error. The implementation is done by python in Anaconda Spyder Navigator Integrated Development Environment. Experimental Result shows that the Passive Aggressive Regression have achieved the effective prediction of number of absent hours with minimum MSE of 0.04, MAE of 0.16, EVS of 0.03, MSLE of 0.32 and reasonable R2 Score of 0.89.