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O*NET detailed work activityAnalyze data to inform operational decisions or activities
AI-readyCrunch the numbers
20 jobs23 tasks
Paste a spreadsheet or table and ask AI to find trends, outliers and totals, or to write the formula you need. It's like having an analyst on call.
Part of Analyze data to improve operations, under the O*NET work activity group Analyzing Data or Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (14 AI-ready, 8 AI-assist, 1 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Analyze, manipulate, or process large sets of data using statistical software.
- Review processing schedules or production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, or duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.
- Analyze quality control test results and provide feedback and interpretation to production management or staff.
- Review financial statements, sales or activity reports, or other performance data to measure productivity or goal achievement or to identify areas needing cost reduction or program improvement.
- Review reports submitted by staff members to recommend approval or to suggest changes.
- Review work procedures and operational problems to determine ways to improve service, performance, or safety.
- Analyze market and delivery systems to assess present and future material availability.
- Analyze inventories to determine how to increase inventory turns, reduce waste, or optimize customer service.
- Review financial statements, sales or activity reports, or other performance data to identify opportunities for cost reductions or service improvements.
- Review menus and analyze recipes to determine labor and overhead costs, and assign prices to menu items.
- Make decisions that balance the perspectives of private citizens, public officials, and party leaders.
- Analyze market conditions to determine acreage allocations.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.
- Analyze data to determine premium rates required and cash reserves and liabilities necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.
- Review project activities and prepare and review research, testing, or operational reports.
- Develop or implement production tracking or quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, or other operational reports to detect production problems.
- Analyze all aspects of corporate logistics to determine the most cost-effective or efficient means of transporting products or supplies.
- Analyze internal processes and recommend and implement procedural or policy changes to improve operations, such as supply changes or the disposal of records.
- Create school improvement plans, using student performance data.
- Analyze and modify compensation and benefits policies to establish competitive programs and ensure compliance with legal requirements.
- Review invoices, work orders, consumption reports, or demand forecasts to estimate peak performance periods and to issue work assignments.
- Evaluate the financial aspects of product development, such as budgets, expenditures, research and development appropriations, or return-on-investment and profit-loss projections.
- Review registration statistics, and consult with faculty officials to develop registration policies.