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Mikkel Dengsøe

Personal blog · mikkeldengsoe.substack.comdatacareer

Mikkel Dengsøe's personal blog at mikkeldengsoe.substack.com covers data and career. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Data to engineers ratio: US vs. Europe”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-26, and you can follow it by feed.

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18mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2021

A regular column with ideas, observations, inspiration and frustrations in and around the data industry. Especially relevant for data practitioners 📊.

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  1. Data to engineers ratio: US vs. Europe
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. mikkelenzo · 2024-02-21

    Submitted Data will not tell you what to do as a story · 184 points

    HN discussion
  2. mikkelenzo · 2025-07-11

    Submitted Using AI for Data Modeling in Dbt as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. mikkelenzo · 2024-03-04

    Submitted Why the 100x analyst doesn't exist as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. elorant · 2022-01-14

    Submitted Data to engineers ratio: US vs. Europe as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. mikkelenzo · 2025-07-18

    Submitted Using Omni's AI Assistant on the Semantic Layer as a story · 1 points

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  6. mikkelenzo · 2024-07-29

    Submitted Top data teams are structured as a story · 1 points

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  7. mikkelenzo · 2024-06-13

    Submitted Why the cost of data issues increase tenfold without human intuition as a story · 1 points

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  8. mikkelenzo · 2024-05-14

    Submitted Data about data from 1k conversations with data teams as a story · 1 points

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  9. mikkelenzo · 2024-01-05

    Submitted 2024: The year of the value-driven data person as a story · 1 points

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  10. acwatt · 2022-03-22

    Submitted We’ve only scratched the surface of the full potential for the data warehouse as a story · 1 points

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  11. mikkelenzo · 2022-01-12

    Submitted Data to engineers ratio: US vs. Europe as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. mikkelenzo · 2022-01-04

    Submitted Some companies are approaching a data to engineers ratio of 0.5x as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. mikkelenzo · 2021-12-16

    Submitted Should analysts be expected to know about engineering best practices? as a story · 1 points

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  14. mikkelenzo · 2021-11-25

    Submitted Spreadsheets and their role in the data warehouse as a story · 1 points

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  15. mikkelenzo · 2021-11-17

    Submitted Moldy Data and Dashboards as a story · 1 points

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  16. mikkelenzo · 2021-11-11

    Submitted Graph theory for thinking about the ROI of data work as a story · 1 points

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  17. mikkelenzo · 2021-11-05

    Submitted Data teams should focus on impact over output as a story · 1 points

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  18. mikkelenzo · 2021-10-28

    Submitted Experiments changes company culture – here’s why you need to embrace them as a story · 1 points

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