Archive - Inside Data by Mikkel Dengsøe

The State of Data Testing in 2024: Why We Still Have Broken Windows

Two years ago, I shared an article called ‘Data tests and the broken windows theory’.

Nov 18 •

Mikkel Dengsøe

July 2024

How top data teams are structured

A deep dive into the ratio of data roles across insight, data engineering, and machine learning

Jul 29 •

Mikkel Dengsøe

June 2024

Is there a human in the loop

Why the cost of data issues increase tenfold without human intuition

Jun 13 •

Mikkel Dengsøe

May 2024

Data about data from 1,000 conversations with data teams

Since starting Synq two years ago, we’ve spoken to over 1,000 data teams. They have something to say about what’s on their minds.

May 14 •

Mikkel Dengsøe

March 2024

Why the 100x analyst doesn’t exist

Much has been written about the 10x – heck, 100x – engineer.

Mar 4 •

Mikkel Dengsøe

February 2024

Data will not tell you what to do

How disappointing it is to learn that the best ideas rarely come from data after 15 years of working in the field.

Feb 21 •

Mikkel Dengsøe

January 2024

November 2023

Very large data teams

What happens when data teams grow to 100s of people and 10,000s of data models and end-users

Nov 9, 2023 •

Mikkel Dengsøe

June 2023

How to identify your business-critical data

Practical steps to identifying business-critical data models and dashboards and drive confidence in your data

Jun 15, 2023 •

Mikkel Dengsøe

April 2023

Data and product team size relative to engineers

What the number of data and product people relative to engineers can tell us about how top tech scaleups operate

Apr 13, 2023 •

Mikkel Dengsøe

March 2023

Data alerts are hard

The difficulty of building alerting workflows fit for scale

Mar 23, 2023 •

Mikkel Dengsøe

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