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Dr. Mark Whitehorn is an internationally
recognised expert who specialises in the areas of data analysis,
data modelling, data warehousing and business intelligence (BI).
His main area of interest is best practice – with reference to the
design and implementation of data management systems is general and
BI systems in particular.
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DR. MARK WHITEHORN
 On
the commercial side:he works extensively for commercial
organisations, usually in the role of BI architect. Over the years
he has worked for a large number of national and international
companies.
In addition to his consultancy practice, he is
a well-recognised commentator on the computer world, publishing
about 100,000 words a year, which appear in the form of articles,
white papers and books (eleven so far). His first book “Inside
Relational Databases” has been selling well since it was published
in 1997; is now in its third edition and has been translated into
Danish, Polish and German. Recent publications include a 10,000
word white paper for Microsoft: Best Practices for Data
Warehousing with SQL Server 2008, Whitehorn, Burns, Microsoft
Corp, and a BI chapter in Introduction to SQL Server 2008,
Microsoft Press.
He has also taught more than 100 commercial
courses for QA (the UK based training company) and Solid Quality
Mentors.
On the academic side:
he has worked at Dundee University for 22 years where he teaches all
aspects of data handling and information management. He is also
a research associate at Cambridge University. There he is involved
in an international research project analysing the hitherto unknown
data that was available to Darwin before he wrote The Origin of
Species. This group published a paper in Nature which essentially
rewrites our understanding of how Darwin came to develop the theory
of evolution. Nature, 2005, 4th. August. p643 “What Henslow taught
Darwin.” Kohn, Murell, Parker, Whitehorn.
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