Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Creating and modifying maps, graphs, or diagrams, using geographical information software and related equipment, and principles of cartography, such as coordinating systems, longitude, latitude, elevation, topography, and map scales.
• Writing and presenting reports of researching findings.
• Developing, operating, and maintaining geographical information computer systems, including hardware, software, plotters, digitizers, printers, and video cameras.
• Locating and obtaining existing geographic information databases.
• Analyzing geographic distributions of physical and cultural phenomena on local, regional, continental, or global scales.
• Teaching geography.
• Gathering and compiling geographic data from sources including censuses, field observations, satellite imagery, aerial photographs, and existing maps.
• Studying the economic, political, and cultural characteristics of a specific region’s population.