What is a junior analyst?

Whereas an IS (information systems) junior analyst conducts system analysis and provides technology project leadership for their organization.

Regardless of the industry, there are four main types of analysis a junior analyst performs:

• Prescriptive Analytics: This type of data process seeks to find the solution to a given problem. In such cases, previous data analysis has already been conducted to determine the company's issue.

• Predictive Analytics: When it comes to predictive analytics, an analyst's goal is to make a series of predictions concerning how company data will behave over a period of time.

  To do this, the analyst takes into consideration any patterns or tendencies that have cropped up from how data behaved in the past, as well as any factors that may condition it in the future

• Descriptive Analytics: Here, an analyst's goal is to describe how a batch of data has behaved over some time. In other words, unlike predictive or descriptive analytics, descriptive analytics simply seeks to determine what happened.

  This type of analysis is particularly common among businesses that wish to understand how their company performed during a specific financial quarter.

• Diagnostic Analytics: Diagnostic analytics seeks as its primary purpose to figure out what were the underlying elements which provoked a series of actions to take place. While some may mistake it as descriptive analysis, the analyst's goal isn't to understand what happened but rather why it did.