Analyst

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Analyst generally is a term for an individual or tool of whom or which the primary function is a deep examination of a specific, limited area and may mean:

  • Accounting analyst, an accounting analyst evaluates and interprets public company financial statements.
  • Business analyst, an employee who examines the needs and concerns of clients and stakeholders to determine where potential problems and opportunities lie, known also as a Business Systems Analyst in business
  • Color analyst, an individual who, as against a play-by-play announcer, provides analysis and commentary in sports broadcasting
  • Cost analyst, an employee who analyzes business operations to determine which courses of action are most efficacious in business
  • Financial analyst, an individual who analyzes securities and business equity in economics and finance
  • Industry analyst, an individual who performs market research on segments of specific industries toward the identification of trends in business and finance
  • Intelligence analyst, an individual who performs Intelligence analysis
  • Patent analyst, in the field of intellectual property an individual who performs patent and non-patent literature searches to determine the patentability of an invention in the military community
  • Psychoanalyst, a practitioner who acts to elucidate connections in a patient's unconscious or subconscious mind in psychotherapy
  • Public analyst, a duly qualified chemist appointed by a local authority in the United Kingdom
  • Public policy analyst
  • Systems analyst or Information analyst, an individual who analyzes technical design and functional design for development of new software in computer science
  • Web metrics Analyst, an individual who examines trends and patterns in the use and expansion of the World Wide Web in webometrics
  • an analyst in mathematics, an individual who focuses in the area of mathematical analysis
  • Handwriting analyst, a person who analyzes a persons characteristics and does personality assessment through handwriting
  • Medical analyst, a person who can interpret medical data for specific analytical purposes
  • Analyst (software) (or AnalystQS), a mass spectrometry software

The analyst may refer to :

  • The Analyst, a famous criticism by Bishop Berkeley about the study of calculus at the time
  • The Analyst, a chemistry journal

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