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Noun: analyst  a-nu-list
  1. Someone who is skilled at analysing data
    "The data analyst quickly identified patterns in the customer behaviour"
     
  2. 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"
     
  3. 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