Sanity Check #7 - Share your Recipes, Save your Secret Sauce
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Do you smell that? This week Sanity Check is all about sharing your tasty analyses without giving away the secrets that make it special to you. The Curated Columns are all people that are sharing openly.
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Data's Secret Sauce
Secret family recipes are special because of the warmth and memories attached to them.
I believe analyses are the same way. Internal insights are special because of the direction and confidence they give your company.
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Curated Columns
The SaaS Metrics that Matter - Being transparent about how this investment firm evaluates SaaS businesses and then providing the recipe to self-evaluate is genius. It helps businesses mature and sources good leads for the investment firm.
H/T to Conor Dewey for sharing this earlier this week.
Hillary Mason explain ML at 5 levels of difficulty - Hillary makes one of the most difficult skills in data look easy - know your audience. We need to be able to tailor our messaging to the knowledge-level of our audience. Her video is a great example of adjusting your message.
Hex's Gallery - I have highlighted Hex before. Their community contributed projects are a great example of recipes you can adapt to your needs. They also have some other exciting news today 👀
Summit Templates - Matt Wensing has created a whiteboard that does math. He calls it Summit and it allows you to simulate the performance of your business, personal finances, or really anything over time. He has created some public templates. I cannot find a central place for all the templates, but if you check his Twitter feed, you won't need to dig far.
Data Doodle
I am working through the Reforge growth program. Their use-case frequency spectrum was a mini 💡 moment.
Frequent tasks are easier to keep top of mind and you work to make those tasks as smooth as possible. Think of writing a transformation job or a weekly flash report.
Infrequent tasks are a grind. You can put up with more pain to get through it just this once and by the time you need to do it again, you have forgotten how hard it was. Think of configuring roles & permissions for your data warehouse or annual budgeting & planning.
Mr. Ben
Systems thinking Powered by data Visualized with drawings
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Hi friends, I promised you that I would get the newsletter out each week, even if I wasn't able to hit publish on an article. Well - no article this week. To make up for it, I've stuffed extra Curated Columns in here. The theme - leverage. “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” - Archimedes Subscribe Curated Columns Benn Stancil's Response - Benn shared a few blurbs on last week's Data's Secret Sauce article. He quickly teased out a...