Dr. David Marker: Consultant and Senior Statistician

Traveling for Work

In this episode we meet Dr. David Marker. He is a senior statistician with over 40 years of experience in project management, quality control and improvement, survey research, sampling, survey evaluation, data analysis, imputation, modeling, and small area statistics. His Ph.D. dissertation topic was on small area estimation. In addition, he has worked on studies in the fields of health, housing, energy, social services,

transportation, and the environment, as well as in the commercial sector. He has worked alongside the USDA, ED, EIA, and the EPA on quality control and improvement. Dr. Marker is an internationally recognized consultant in total quality management, and has been invited to conduct training sessions for the Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, and South African

Governments on improving the quality of their data collection activities. He has also appeared as an expert witness before Federal, state, and local governments and Federal and State courts. He currently has his own consulting firm where he has worked with clients including Georgia Tech Research Institute and the United Nations Inter-secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys where he reviewed a wide range of reports and held discussions with leaders of statistical organizations around the world. He gathered information on how NSOs addressed these data collections during COVID. He then developed a report that made use of quality frameworks to identify the many impacts and described how best to minimize and address them. Finally, he frequently presents to high school AP Statistic students and encourages the students to travel the world as he continues to do for his work: traveling to 55 places around the world including to Sweden 13 times, 5 times to Australia and Mexico; 7 times to the United Kingdom, Finland and Norway; 2 times to South Africa among many other places.