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.

Any administrator should excel at:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates, as well as communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization, and getting them to work together to accomplish tasks by encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

• Predicting future gang, organized crime, or terrorist activity, using analyses of intelligence data.
• Studying activities relating to narcotics, money laundering, gangs, auto theft rings, terrorism, or other national security threats.
• Designing, using, or maintaining databases and software applications, such as geographic information systems (GIS) mapping and artificial intelligence tools.
• Establishing criminal profiles for aiding in connecting criminal organizations with their members.
• Evaluating records of communications, such as telephone calls, to plot activity and determining the size and location of criminal groups and members.
• Gathering and evaluating information, using tools such as aerial photographs, radar equipment, or sensitive radio equipment.
• Gathering intelligence information by field observation, confidential information sources, or public records.
• Gathering, analyzing, correlating, or evaluating information from a variety of resources, such as law enforcement databases.