Noun form of "analytic"
I've been tasked with creating some custom website tracking for a CMS, similar to Google Analytics. I was going to title this area on the back-end as Analytics but I got a spell-check red squiggle and that sent me to a Google search which resulted in me finding out analytics isn't a real word.
So is there a noun form of analytic or am I just being stupid?
It absolutely is a word.
From Merriam-Webster:
an·a·lyt·ics
noun pl but singular or pl in constr \ˌa-nə-ˈli-tiks\
: the method of logical analysis
First Known Use of ANALYTICS
circa 1590
Traditionally, the noun form is analysis. The -sis ending in Greek is a noun form that gets changed into -ikos when it is made into an adjective, from which we get out -ic ending for lots of our adjectives. The word analytics was perhaps coined a very long time ago, but it has only recently been gaining currency, I think.