Daniel Whitenack (aka Data Dan) is a Ph.D. trained data scientist and founder of Prediction Guard. He has more than twelve years of experience developing and deploying machine learning models at scale, and he has built data teams at two startups and an international NGO with 4000+ staff. Daniel co-hosts the Practical AI podcast, has spoken at conferences around the world (QCon, ODSC, Applied Machine Learning Days, O’Reilly AI, GopherCon, KubeCon, and more), and occasionally teaches data science/analytics at Purdue University.