Noun: analyst a-nu-list
- Someone who is skilled at analysing data
"The data analyst quickly identified patterns in the customer behaviour"
- An expert who studies financial data (on credit, securities, sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions
"The financial analyst advised the company to diversify its investment portfolio"
- A licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
"The analyst helped her patient explore childhood memories";
- psychoanalyst
Sounds like: annalist
Derived forms: analysts
Type of: expert, head-shrinker [informal], psychiatrist, shrink [informal]
Encyclopedia: Analyst, or, Mathematical Museum