WQ Data

WQ Data is a small, family-owned data analysis consultancy established in 2009. With more than 40 projects completed, the company helps clients understand environmental data and obtain reliable answers to practical questions. Its work focuses on designing and delivering monitoring programs, often related to human impacts on the environment, including wastewater discharges into aquatic environments.

WQ Data provides monitoring program design, data quality assurance, statistical analysis, and near-field numerical modelling to estimate the location and dilution of wastewater outfall plumes. It also supports data collection by working with specialist groups, offers technical management for the scientific elements of projects, and prepares technical or plain-English reports and presentations. Its approach begins by understanding clients’ questions, business needs, and constraints, then uses existing data or develops a suitable collection program before applying appropriate analysis and modelling methods.

The company emphasizes tailored, scientifically robust solutions and making effective use of collected data. WQ Data also offers mentoring to students and early-career professionals through UNSW’s Career Discovery Mentoring Program, and provides a downloadable book on spectral analysis.