ask Dr. LJ - what's the term I want?

[dchenes]

What do you call somebody who, given a largish collection of data, assembles it in ways that will be useful to other people?

I can tell somebody how many Professors of Pediatrics at MGH have been promoted in the month of July since 1997, but I can't take that number and make anything else out of it. I don't have any training in statistics, so I don't think I'm a data analyst, but I'm not really a database administrator either. (Except that I created the database, and the query, that will tell me how many Professors of Pediatrics at MGH have been promoted in the month of July since 1997.) So what am I exactly when I'm wearing that particular hat?

Comments

[silverbackbutch.livejournal.com]

A taxonomist?
An aggregator?

It's definitely data compiling & research.

Grand Pubah of Tenure data?

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

"Aggregator" was my first thought too, but I'd go with "Great High Imperial Factotum" -- it's less specifically accurate, but sounds nicely impressive, and encompasses other of your job aspects as well.

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

If you assemble it in a way that it is useful by being immediately visually apparent what's going on, then you're doing information visualization.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Data Agregation Specialist would be my top choice.

Otherwise Database Manager sounds good too.