Steve Markham is Director and Data Scientist at Marquis & Lord Ltd. He became a consultant as a post-graduate; developing and applying software applications to water management. His experience in mathematics led to developing expertise in data analysis and he now has over 30 years experience as a consultant for the commercial and public sectors. During the last 10 years, he has applied data science (statistical analysis and data management) using open source software (particularly the R environment) to a range of investigations; giving meaning to data and informing the decision-making process.
BSc - Civil Engineering - University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1982
MSc - Water Resource Systems Engineering 1986
He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
The Data Science Revolution
Data comes from many sources: from the results of water analysis to the time, date and location of a customer complaint. The ability to turn data into information is determined by: