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The Three Layers of Data and Analytics Success

With the data age well and truly upon us, the struggle to keep up is a challenge faced by virtually every organization. And in a time where the majority of marketers didn’t grow up with iPads or smartphones in hand, these can be difficult waters to navigate.

While everyone seems to agree that the sheer volume and expanse of data available today is key to unlocking business value, getting to the point where data is actually driving organization-wide decision-making has proven difficult.

Like a child visiting the beach for the first time, we’ve run down to the sand and jumped into the ocean of data with excitement we could barely contain.

We splashed around in the shallows and even dared to swim a bit deeper — until the first waves knocked us down and held us under, showing us all just how scary and powerful this ocean of data can be.

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David Booth

David is a founding partner and principal consultant at Cardinal Path, as well as an author, instructor, adjunct professor, and regular speaker. As a consultant, David has advised and worked with companies and organizations across five continents in web analytics and business intelligence, statistical analysis and testing, technology selection and deployment, and online & search marketing. David is the author of Google AdWords Essential Training (Lynda.com, 2011) and Google Website Optimizer Essential Training (Lynda.com, 2010) and served as a technical editor of Performance Marketing with Google Analytics (Wiley, 2010) and Google Analytics Essential Training (Lynda.com, 2011). He is currently working on yet another project to be published in the Spring of 2012, and he teaches a masters level course on web analytics and online marketing at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. As an instructor and speaker, David has keynoted numerous events and has led seminars and sessions focused on digital analytics and search & conversion marketing all around the world for audiences ranging from C-level executives to technical implementation teams. He has been involved in web application development as an engineer and consultant since the late 1990's, beginning his career with Intel Corporation. He was a founder and partner at WebShare, LLC through its merger, and spent two years with the United States Peace Corps developing and deploying websites and web applications to attract grants and international aid for Guatemalan NGOs and local development organizations. David earned his Master of Business Administration in International Management from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.