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How top data teams are structured
A deep dive into the ratio of data roles across insight, data engineering, and machine learning
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June 2024

Is there a human in the loop
Why the cost of data issues increase tenfold without human intuition
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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.
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March 2024

Why the 100x analyst doesn’t exist
Much has been written about the 10x – heck, 100x – engineer.
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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.
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January 2024

The business-critical data warehouse
How the data warehouse moved on from analytics and the role AI has played in accelerating this
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2024: The year of the value-driven data person
Growth at all costs has been replaced with a need to operate efficiently and be ROI-driven–data teams are no exception
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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
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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
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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
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March 2023

Data alerts are hard
The difficulty of building alerting workflows fit for scale
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February 2023

Data team as % of workforce: A deep dive into 100 tech scaleups
What’s the right ratio of data roles in scaleups and why it should probably be higher than you think
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