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APPENDIX F DATA TERMS, JARGON AND PHRASES

Data has become the forefront of many mainstream conversations about technology. New innovations constantly draw commentary on data, how we use and analyse it, and the broader implications of those effects. As a result, popular IT vernacular has come to include several phrases, new and old:

• Analyst: A professional who is responsible for examining, studying and interpreting data, information, or various forms of evidence to derive insights, make informed decisions or provide recommendations.
• Analytics: Analytics uses data to answer business questions, discover relationships, predict unknown outcomes and automate decisions. This includes finding meaningful patterns in data and uncovering new knowledge ...