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An analyst is an individual who performs analysis of a topic. The term may refer to one of the following professions:
- Accounting, business and finance
- 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
- 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
- Marketing analyst, a person who analyzes price, customer, competitor and economic data to help companies
- Quantitative analyst applies mathematical techniques to investment banking, especially in the fields of risk management, trading and financial derivatives
- Other professions
- 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
- Handwriting analyst, a person who performs a personality assessment through handwriting
- Intelligence analyst, an individual who performs intelligence analysis
- Mathematical analyst, an individual who focuses in the area of mathematical analysis
- News analyst, examines, analyses, interprets, and may comment on news received from various sources
- Psychoanalyst, a practitioner who acts to facilitate understanding of a patient's unconscious mind
- Public analyst, a qualified chemist appointed by a local authority in the United Kingdom
- Public policy analyst, an individual who analyzes the effect of public policies with respect to their goals
- Systems analyst, an individual who analyzes technical design and functional design for software development
- Web metrics analyst, an individual who examines trends and patterns in the use and expansion of the World Wide Web in webometrics
- Products
It may also refer to:
- Analyst (software) (or AnalystQS), a mass spectrometry software
- Analyst (journal), a chemistry journal
See also
- The Analyst, a famous criticism by Bishop Berkeley about the study of calculus at the time
- Annalists, history-writers in ancient Rome.
- Category:Mathematical analysts
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