ask Dr. LJ - what's the term I want?
Jan. 6th, 2010 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesWhat 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?
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?
