Analyst

Analyst generally is a term for an individual 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
• Chemical analyst, a person who performs chemical experiments and analyses
• 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
• Handwriting analyst, a person who analyzes a persons characteristics and does personality assessment through handwriting
• Industry analyst, an individual who performs market research on segments of specific industries toward the identification of trends in business and finance
• Institutional Research Analyst, an individual who analyzes data gathered for an educational institute
• Intelligence analyst, an individual who performs Intelligence analysis
• Marketing analyst, a marketing analyst analyzes price, customer, competitor and economic data to help a company know where its been and where it should go
• Medical analyst, a person who can interpret medical data for specific analytical purposes
• 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 facilitate understanding of a patient's unconscious mind
• Public analyst, a duly qualified chemist appointed by a local authority in the United Kingdom
• Public policy analyst
• Quantitative analyst applies mathematical techniques to investment banking, especially in the fields of risk management, trading and financial derivatives
• 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
• Analyst (software) (or AnalystQS), a mass spectrometry software
• Analyst(tm) (software), fully parallelized high-performance, ultra-high accuracy 3D finite element method (FEM) analysis software for complex Electromagnetic (EM) problems.
• Analyst (journal), a chemistry journal

The analyst may refer to :

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

See also

• Annalists, history-writers in ancient Rome.
• Category:Mathematical analysts