Data analytics is the process of examining raw data and identifying trends and patterns in order to make conclusions.

The data analyst will be responsible for interpreting the data, preparing the reports with visual presentations where he communicates trends and patterns that he found in the raw data in order to facilitate the decision making of the managers.

He works with the data scientists and the data engineers, the disciplines of the three being tightly linked. Since the boundaries between the three are not always clearly defined and vary across organizations, the tasks of data analysts might include data mining, database management, modeling and predicting which are mostly attributed to the other two disciplines.

Data analytics works in various fields where quantitative methods are required such as market research, financial analysis, marketing analysis, sales analysis.

Tools used by the data analyst are database management systems such as Oracle, statistical analyzing software like SAS or R, and business analysis tools namely Microsoft Power BI.