Timo Dechau

Hey, I am Timo! Great to meet you.

I am the founder of Deepskydata and usually spend my days thinking about better growth data setups.

These thoughts eventually end up in products, playbooks, workshops, blogs and videos. If I don't do this, I enjoy my time with my family in the beautiful surroundings of North Jutland in Denmark.

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Design-driven Analytics

Design-driven Analytics

The symptoms aren't the problem When I talk to people about their data challenges, we usually get to the pain points pretty quickly. "We have a real issue with data quality. It's just not good enough, and we're not making progress." Then there's the trust problem. "People don't trust our data." Sometimes this comes right after they've fixed the quality issues - which makes it even more frustrating. You fix the thing, and people still don't believe in it. And then you get to literacy. "I thin

• 11 min read
Basic analytics skills in the dawn of agentic whatever

Basic analytics skills in the dawn of agentic whatever

On my YouTube channel, the video "How I would start as a Data Consultant - if I could press Restart" is the most watched video with over 7,000 views (which is a lot for my channel). I have published it in October 2022. So 3 years ago. It does not mention AI in any way, because it did not matter then. But it does now. Time for an update. Even when it is a bit more meta than the first one. A lot of people trying to predict how AI will change data work. Will analysts disappear? Will data engineers

• 13 min read
Pragmatic Orthodoxy - Data Signals #1 - 03.11.25

Pragmatic Orthodoxy - Data Signals #1 - 03.11.25

Hello, welcome to a new bi-weekly format of this newsletter. I am thinking about it a while already, how I can share interesting content I come across. It shouldn't be just a next, here is a list of great articles I read, type of post. These are great, but there are already plenty of them. So, I developed this signal format. The basic idea is that I highlight interesting ideas and thoughts I come across when reading a post. Then spend some time with an AI model to riff and brainstorm over thes

• 5 min read
dbt blues

dbt blues

When dbt Labs announced their merger with Fivetran, the data community had feelings. A lot of them. The dbt fear index—Oliver from Lightdash's brilliant term for the spike in repository forks—told the story better than any LinkedIn post could. 🚨 The dbt Fear Index just spiked 🚨 The number of of dbt forks are going crazy on rumors of a Fivetran acquisition and the timing couldn't be more wild with Coalesce right around the corner. In… | Oliver Laslett | 59 comments🚨 The dbt Fear Index jus

• 16 min read
The End of Digital Analytics

The End of Digital Analytics

as we know it. When Amplitude announced their new chief evangelist some days ago, most people saw a standard hire - congratulations comments galore. I saw something different: a clear signal that digital analytics as we know it is fundamentally over. This wasn't just any hire. They brought in someone who embodied everything that Google Analytics 4 represented—the old marketing analytics world that digital analytics had been built around for two decades. It's like watching a species evolve in r

• 32 min read
Vibe Analytics: When Everyone Becomes an Analyst (And Analysts Become Everything Else)

Vibe Analytics: When Everyone Becomes an Analyst (And Analysts Become Everything Else)

1. Introduction: The Vibe Shift So, vibe coding is a thing. I won't spend this post arguing why vibe coding is a thing, because that's not really the purpose here. To be honest, the whole thing is in a weird space right now. On one hand, you see the super enthusiastic people posting about how they built a million-dollar app over a weekend. Definitely not true. But on the other hand, you see very experienced developers pointing out how this whole thing cannot really work. And then in the middle,

• 11 min read

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Events

Forecast:

Workshop: Build Your 2026 Growth Intelligence Roadmap

10/12/2025, 21.00

Past:

Blog post published

09/12/2025, 06.18

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LinkedIn post published

28/11/2025, 07.30

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YouTube Video published

21/11/2025, 20.09

Past:

Workshop: From Product Analytics to Growth Intelligence

19/11/2025, 19.00