Sean Dougherty

Articles by Sean Dougherty

Senior Brand Creative at Funnel, Sean has more than 15 years of experience working in branding and advertising (both agency and client side). He's also a professional voice actor.

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Marketing Data

What is data-driven marketing?

At Funnel, data-driven marketing is a way of life. We use data to both measure and inform all of our marketing efforts. It is so ingrained into our DN...

Data

All about data visualization — what, why, how?

Data visualization is an essential tool for any modern marketer. After all, what good are all of your performance metrics if you can’t see what’s happ...

What is data cleaning? Your complete guide.

Data cleaning is an integral part of every savvy digital marketer’s tool belt. Data cleaning is often considered the foundational step of the data ana...

geo maps with Data Studio

How to create geo maps in Google Data Studio

Geo maps are a great resource to quickly analyze campaign performance in Google Data Studio. They can give you a quick snapshot of which countries and...

Data

What is data wrangling? A cowboy-style explanation

There are several symbolic visuals that can represent the American West. However, few of them are as powerful (or as popular) as the cowboy. Rugged. S...

Data mapping is to prevent putting oranges with apples
Data

Your guide to data mapping

As the old saying goes, you can’t compare apples and oranges. Nor can you compare grandmothers and toads, cows and long johns, or honey and butter. Ma...

data transformation

Which data transformation tools are best for digital marketers?

As we covered in a recent article, data transformation is a critical part of data maintenance and analysis. But what data transformation tools are ava...

Data transformation explained

What is data transformation?

The question of “what is data transformation” can have a wide array of answers that range from surface level overviews to heavy, deep explorations tha...

what to include in a marketing report
Data

What to include in your digital marketing report

You made your marketing plan, tracked your marketing channels and downloaded the data. Now it’s time to do some marketing reporting and see how it all...

Marketing

Marketing reporting automation: why and how to start

Marketing reporting automation can be a game changer for digital marketers. It can totally change your perspective on what’s possible in your role, re...