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, in business 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.
• Color analyst, in sports broadcasting an individual who, as against a play-by-play announcer, provides analysis and commentary.
• Cost analyst, in business an employee who analyzes business operations to determine which courses of action are most efficacious.
• Financial analyst, in economics and finance an individual who analyzes securities and business equity.
• Industry analyst, in business and finance an individual who performs market research on segments of specific industries toward the identification of trends.
• Intelligence analyst, in the military community, 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.
• Psychoanalyst, in psychotherapy a practitioner who acts to elucidate connections in a patient's unconscious or subconscious mind.
• Public analyst, in the United Kingdom a duly qualified chemist appointed by a local authority.
• Public policy analyst.
• Systems Analyst or Information Analyst in computer science is an individual who analyzes technical design and functional design for development of new software.
• Web metrics Analyst, in webometrics an individual who examines trends and patterns in the use and expansion of the World Wide Web.
• An analyst in mathematics is 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.

[edit] See also

• 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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