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["About the Author Dr. Sandeep Uttamchandani is the Chief Data Officer and VP of Product Engineering at Unravel Data Systems. He brings nearly two decades of experience building enterprise data products and running petabyte-scale data platforms for business-critical analytics and machine learning applications. Most recently, he was at Intuit, where he ran the data platform team powering analytics and machine learning for Intuit\u2019s financial accounting, payroll, and payments products. Previously in his career, Sandeep was co-founder and CEO of a startup using machine learning for managing security vulnerabilities of open source products. He has held engineering leadership roles at VMware and IBM for 15+ years. Sandeep holds more than 40 issued patents, has 25+ publications in key technical conferences, and has received several product innovation and management excellence awards. He is a regular speaker at data conferences and a guest lecturer at universities. He advises startups and has served as a program\/steering committee member for several conferences, including serving as co-chair of Gartner\u2019s SF CDO Executive Summit and Usenix Operational ML (OpML) conference. Sandeep holds a Ph.D and a Master\u2019s in","Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.","Colophon The animal on the cover of The Self-Service Data Roadmap is a townsend\u2019s big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii). Native to western North America, these flying mammals have an especially large presence in the thick pine forests of the Rocky Mountain states like Utah, Colorado, etc., but are also seen in as far as southern Mexico. During the summer months they can be found roosting in abandoned buildings, but they generally prefer open areas with low and steady temperatures such as caves, cliffs, and even abandoned mines. While males tend to roost alone, females will raise their pups in maternity colonies that can range from 12 to 200 members, although groups of 1,000 have been recorded. With a large wing area to mass ratio, the townsend\u2019s big-eared bat is capable of high maneuverability, low-speed flight, and the ability to hover while flying. In fact, tests conducted on straight-line tracks clocked their speeds ranging from between 6.4 to 12.3 mph. As their namesake, the large ears on townsend\u2019s big- eared bats are what enable them to navigate and hunt with accuracy. From their larynx they emit low- frequency pulses, which only last a few thousandths of a second, that bounce off objects and return back to","their ears. With these quick signals, they can determine the shape, size, distance, and even texture of their main prey: moths. They make up about 80% of their diet, which also includes other destructive species like gypsy moths, making the townsend\u2019s big- eared bat an effective source of pest-control that help reduce the environmental and agricultural damage caused by insects. Many of the animals on O\u2019Reilly covers are endangered; all of them are important to the world. The cover illustration is by Karen Montgomery, based on a black and white engraving from British Quadrupeds. The cover fonts are Gilroy Semibold and Guardian Sans. The text font is Adobe Minion Pro; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is Dalton Maag\u2019s Ubuntu Mono."]