Data’s Secret Sauce: Should the analyses be shared like recipes or treasured like a secret sauce in your grandma’s pie? Doesn’t a rising tide lift all boats? And just like with a family recipe — that often came from an old cookbook before being attributed to your grandma — a secret sauce of a business’ data analytics often came from a publicly available article, a book, or an scientific paper. And it was the application to the business that made it so special to them. “Sharing success vaguely” gives others a chance to imitate and possibly also find success. It’s not the recipe that will make people fall in love with the analysis. It’s the application to their context that will do that. (Ray Data Co.) (View Highlight)
