Data Transformers Podcast
62 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 486 ratingsThe primary goal of Data Transformers podcast is to accelerate digital transformation by bridging the gap between business goals and technology initiatives using Data as glue. Visit https://datatransformerspodcast.com for more details.
With the rapid advancement of technologies such as AI, ML, IOT, Cloud computing et al and the explosion of data that these technologies rely on, it is absolutely important to manage the data in intelligent and efficient ways. We’d like to enable that by interviewing the transformers in the industry who are leading the way in digital transformation. We also would like to bring our perspectives, latest trends and most valuable resources to you so you could be a data transformer in your organization.
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Data Analytics & Decision Making – Amaresh Tripathy
January 26, 2022 22:38 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBAmaresh Tripathi, Senior VP of Genpact manages about 10,000+ data scientists, data engineers, and technologists. H preaches ‘Making Tech work for business’ with Data & Analytics. Amaresh talked about making the workforce ‘bilingual’ i.e. business and technology. As a student of decision making, Amaresh believes that Analytics will be the front and center of all decisions going forward. Amaresh is also an adjunct professor at UNC Charlotte and chair of board for data science. With a passion fo...
Inclusive Excellence for a Technology driven business – Dean Ian Williamson
November 03, 2021 16:57 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBBusinesses need leaders who are skilled not just in business but entrepreneurial and technology areas with a bent to bring economic as well as social well being. That is the mission of Dean Ian Williamson of Paul Merage School of Business at University of California at Irvine. Dean Williamson is passionate about building talent pipelines that are not just confined to organizations but that extend beyond into the community. With a bent on fostering inclusive excellence, Dean Williamson wants t...
Continuous Data Quality Monitoring with Gangesh Ganesan
September 02, 2021 01:18 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBIs continuous data quality monitoring a myth? Not so fast. That is according to Ganesh Gangesan, Founder & CEO of PeerNova. Traditional data quality monitoring requires data to be in a repository and data quality platforms apply certain business rules to measure the data quality. And the exceptions are referred back to the data sources/owners to fix the exceptions. PeerNova’s Cuneiform solution, with its origins in data security & networking, applies a no-code approach to solving the measurem...
The Future of Women in AI is bright according to The Data Leader of The year, Adita Karkera
August 26, 2021 18:02 - 26 minutes - 36.3 MBEven though women are 47% of the workforce, less than 28% of them are in tech and even less in senior data roles. Adita Karkera, CDO advisor and the data leader of the year with WIT, explains why there is that gap. With broad experience in state government and federal governments with data management, Adita discussed the nuances of leveraging data to impact public policy. With respect to AI, Adita believes that there is a tremendous opportunity to educate the professionals as well as the gene...
Five Types of Thinking for High Performing Data Scientists
August 19, 2021 17:43 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MBArtificial Intelligence is all the rage currently. But there was a time when AI has gone through ‘AI Winter’ when there was not much interest in AI. Dr. Anand Rao has gone through those AI Winters. To avoid AI winter, we need to be cognizant of AI risks. Should be balance between AI innovation and risks. Should not reduce customer risk. In thos episode, Anand talks about five types of thinking that data scientists should focus on to be high performing data scientists. As the Global head of AI...
Data Analytics By Design with Dr. Kirk Borne
August 12, 2021 19:15 - 26 minutes - 36.6 MBManaging data at the speed of business versus managing business at the speed of data. Data moves the fastest so business should be moving at the speed of data. Analytics is the main beneficiary of this data. Dr. Kirk Borne has always been a scientist with jobs in data science, Astrophysics, and data analytics. After a very successful stint with NASA, George Mason University, and Booz Allen, Kirk started a new chapter with a startup that matches job seekers with companies using ML algorithms t...
Building a 24 hour Data Science Community with Danielle Oberdier of Dikayo Data
July 22, 2021 20:27 - 31 minutes - 43 MBData Science community should be a representative community to drive meaningful impact according to Danielle Oberdier of Dikayo Data. She is facilitating that with a 24 hour data science community and DataFemme podcast and twitter communities.
Cybersecurity and AI working together to make systems safe with Dr. Madiha Jafri
June 29, 2021 19:41 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MBArtificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity are large and complex domains each by themselves. When you combine both of them, it could be overwhelming. Dr. Madiha Jafri, Associate Fellow at Lockheed Martin for AI & Cybersecurity navigates these domains to make systems safer. In this episode. Dr. Jafri articulates how AI can help speed up cybersecurity threat detection. She also talked about her journey starting from cryptography to nanotechnology to AI. The discussed addressed challenges such as...
To improve data quality, start at the source – Jacklyn Osborne
June 09, 2021 18:20 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MBVery often, organizations focus a lot on data cleansing after the data has been captured. But any incremental effort spent on focusing on data quality at the source will reap long term benefits. In this episode, Jacklyn Osborne, Data Quality Control executive at Bank of America, talks about the importance of data education to frontline employees so they can also be stakeholders of data quality. Jacklyn talked about the role of CDO, skills necessary for CDO, and how CDO can be empowered by whe...
Data Ops should be part of everyone on the Data team – Christopher Bergh
May 27, 2021 06:28 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MBData Ops is about working with everyone who deals with Data to deploy data related projects together. It is not just one person’s job. Christopher Bergh, CEO of Data Kitchen has embarked on Data Ops journey much earlier than the industry was asking for it. Nowadays, everybody including Gartner is talking about Ops, Data Ops, Dev Ops, ML Ops, X-ops etc. But Ops should not be a single person’s job. It should be 10% of every team member’s job to think about Operations. Just like Deming prescribe...
Combining the passions of Data and Teaching with Laura Ellis
May 19, 2021 22:32 - 21 minutes - 14.2 MBLaura Ellis, IBM Cloud systems Architect, always wanted to be a teacher. A recognition here and an award there in Computer Science got Laura interested in computer science and later a job with IBM. Laura combined her passion for teaching with DB2 and toured the world training others in DB2. As the business intelligence started picking up in 2013, Laura completed a part time MS in Predictive analytics and switched in data science. Laura realized that the organization needed people with other s...
Overview of 2021 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium with Allan Tate
May 14, 2021 07:19 - 32 minutes - 24.9 MB2021 The Big Reset - Digital Enterprises shift into High Gear. Much of the workforce has been forced into the digital space, a major shift, and leadership must adapt. The pandemic proved how vital a CIO is to an organization as they deploy technology to benefit employees and end users. More and more CIOs are becoming accountable for the digital performance of enterprises around the world.
Data Diva talks data privacy – Conversation with Debbie Reynolds
May 11, 2021 06:41 - 23 minutes - 16.8 MBData privacy has come up on the trending topics recently because of Whatsapp policy changes by Facebook and news about Clubhouse app’s request for contacts list on the device. Debbie Reynolds explained the intricacies of data privacy, consent, and convenience. Debbie’s contention is that privacy can be used as a business advantage to acquire more customers. Debbie also talked about privacy risk index that she has come up with in association with Privacy & Cookies based in London. This episode...
Iceberg strategy for Chief Digital/Data Officers
May 07, 2021 06:35 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBNowadays, there are a lot of expectations of Chief Data Officers for both short term and long term. One way to manage the expectations is to have a two-track strategy. CDOs need to have a list of items that are of value to business stakeholders in the short term and also have a long term roadmap. Krishna Cheriath, CDO of Zoetis, the largest animal health company in the world, has been experimenting with Iceberg strategy with great results. Krishna is an advocate of every employee being a dig...
The pillars of a successful data strategy – Jennifer Agnes
May 04, 2021 06:45 - 30 minutes - 20.5 MBData strategy can’t live by itself. It needs to be driven by a business strategy. A six pillar approach to data strategy will stand the test of time. 1) Understanding and creating the vision (2) people and culture (3) Operating model (4) Data platforms, tech and architecture (5) Data excellence (6) . Jennifer Agnes, who was implementing data strategy within the corporations, is now helping companies as a consultant. For any work, an assessment is the first step. The gaps from the assessment w...
Storytelling ABOUT the data is as important as storytelling WITH the data
April 27, 2021 17:06 - 21 minutes - 15.8 MBThe concepts behind master data have been around for a very, very long time. Which means the businesses won’t function well without implementing master data. Scott Taylor, the Data Whisperer, believes that it is more productive to talk to management about data than the processes behind it. The business side is more interested in the WHY side of data. Why are you telling me about this? Why are we funding this? What does it matter to me? So there is always that gap between requirements/implemen...
Security, Privacy, Integrity, Transparency for AI Systems – Pamela Gupta
April 20, 2021 06:57 - 24 minutes - 14.2 MBAs AI and its subset Machine Learning systems continue to increase in breadth and depth around us from systems being used in courts around the country to assist in determining length of incarceration to connected systems to home based devices such as Alexa, Siri and Google home - one glaring gap and risk is that of security in the development of these systems. Traditional security SDLC is not going to be sufficient to identify security, privacy vulnerabilities in these systems. Artificial I...
Ethical considerations for companies in implementing AI
April 15, 2021 20:00 - 23 minutes - 15.4 MBArtificial Intelligence deployments are at an early stage almost akin to E-Commerce deployments were 15 years ago. The terminology is still being understood and normalized. Fion Lee Madan of Fairly AI goes over the need for fairness for AI based on her observations in personal life. Similar to DevOps for e-commerce, there is need for ML ops and model ops for AI as well. Unfortunately, business decision makers focus on ROI first with governance second. Regulation can help balance the equation.
Aligning data processes, management & tools in a CDO role
April 13, 2021 15:38 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBBusiness Intelligence has evolved significantly over the years. In Gen 1, BI was predominantly owned by IT. In Gen 2, starting in 2000 or so, business users have gotten involved with self-service analytics. Going forward in 3rd gen, the focus will be on controlling and managing the backend of data management & governance and liberating the front-end of analytics & visualization with democratization of data. Joe DoeSantos, CDO of Qlik, has seen this evolution with multiple companies. Given tha...
Cloud Computing, Conversational AI, and more with CDO of Ally, Meena
April 09, 2021 05:16 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBCloud computing is being adopted very aggressively across many industries and Finance industry is no exception. Companies that are regulated heavily are leaning towards private cloud and hybrid cloud is another option. Meena Thanikachalam, Chief Data & Analytics leader at Ally Financial, has been driving cloud adoption. Meena is also an advocate of a platform business approach for technology adoption whereby multiple departments in an org can pool together to invest in latest technologies. Sa...
Focus on business use cases first – Greg Coquillo
April 05, 2021 19:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBWith so much hype about machine learning, people think every problem needs to be solved and can be solved with ML. In this episode, Greg Coquillo goes over the importance of separating use cases where ML can be beneficial and use cases where just a rule-based approach might work. Greg talked about re-learning statistics, probability, and data science to apply strategically in his job. Greg is taking his team to using ML where it makes sense such as classification so ML can do lot more and lot...
Impact of COVID-19 on digital transformation of education and health
March 30, 2021 14:48 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBCOVID-19 has accelerated digital information by multiple years in many industries and especially in education and health. UC Irvine Vice-Chancellor Tom Andriola was in the middle of it all. Within 6 months of accepting and defining the first ever Vice Chancellor & Chief Digital Officer of UC Irvine, Tom was thrust into shaping predictive analytics for identifying most likely patients for intensive care based on multiple sets of data and identifying patients who can be treated from home. Simil...
Navigating a CDO role across geographies, organizations and cultures
March 25, 2021 18:01 - 26 minutes - 19 MBAlthea Davis served as a Chief Data Officer (CDO) across at least 5 different organizations and multiple cultures. After shuttling between Canada and the United States, Althea studied in Germany on a Fulbright scholarship. From there, she settled down in the Netherlands for 30 years or so climbing up the ranks to become a CDO at multiple organizations. Interestingly, Althea served the CDO role not as an employee but as an external consultant. The episode covers Althea’s opinions on the role o...
Data monetization starts with focus on Customer engagement & Customer Journey
March 22, 2021 20:18 - 25 minutes - 17 MBThe key focus of data and analytics should be about data monetization. And Data monetization starts with the understanding of data usage and people who value data. Given that business drivers like inventory reduction and predictive maintenance improvement are key business metrics, data scientists and data engineers should start understanding the business drivers that attach value to data. Bill Schmarzo believes that customer engagement and operational improvement are teh key drivers for monet...
Collaboration and Data competency are key for Data Analytics Success
March 15, 2021 18:25 - 24 minutes - 17.4 MBData analytics projects, as opposed to ERP or CRM projects, lack clear requirements. As the business owners are ultimately accountable for the outcomes of data analytics projects, they’ll be skeptical and possibly intimidated by the technologies used in analytics such as machine learning etc. The way to address this is with a collaborative platform that has workflows where multiple technology and business stakeholders can participate from the get go. The collaborative workflow based approach ...
A blueprint for data strategy driven by business strategy
March 04, 2021 18:06 - 31 minutes - 19.9 MBBusiness executives using data to drive decisions has only gone from 10% to 13% over a period of 20 years. The reason for such a small shift is that the key business people are still not brought up to speed on how focusing on data could improve EBITDA and other business metrics significantly. One of the ways that can be done is by creating a role of a data economist whose job is to create an economic model of a data initiative. Keyur Desai, former CDO of Ameritrade, became a CDO when the job ...
Using Data Analytics for human capital management and career management
February 25, 2021 23:27 - 23 minutes - 15.3 MBHuman capital management is not just about helping companies find the people with right talent at the right time. By using data analytics, companies can learn about patterns, trends, and predict labor spend. Salema Rice works as Chief Data & Analytics officer for Geometric Results Inc (GRI), one of the largest contingency talent providers, uses data extensively to be a strategic partner to the companies they work with. As a prior Chief Data Officer in many industries, Salema talked about the ...
Helping Businesses Responsibly Implement AI
February 22, 2021 22:19 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBBusinesses need to evaluate AI strategy as a key element of corporate strategy and not as a separate strategy. Example, if diversity and inclusion is a core strategy, those values should be part of AI strategy too. Cortnie Abercrombie, CEO & Founder of AI Truth, worked with many businesses as part of IBM’s Digital Transformation team. Cortnie advocates that businesses need to start with a goal. Is this a goal we need to pursue AI for this goal? Could we pull the use case in a way that does mo...
How To Measure, Manage, and Monetize Information As An Asset
February 17, 2021 16:59 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBIt has become a cliche to say data is an asset. If an organization is not making an attempt to measure, manage, and monetize, information can’t be an asset. Doug Laney is one of the foremost thought leaders who has been espousing Infonomics and the need for organizations to monetize their data. Doug was also the leader who came up with 3 Vs to describe Big Data and the one who came up with 4 types of analytics namely Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive, and Prescriptive. Doug’s assertion is t...
Defensive Versus Offensive Data Strategies
February 09, 2021 21:53 - 22 minutes - 14.2 MBData is never perfect. The key question for data practitioners should be ‘Is it good enough’ for the problem to be addressed’? Each analytics situation requires its own strategy with respect to the quality of data being fed and the time/cost it requires to incrementally improve the quality. Wendy Zhang had multiple hats at different companies as a data governance lead and data analytics lead. Wendy had the luxury of building a data governance team from scratch at Wells Fargo and now works wit...
Can Video Artificial Intelligence help with use cases like Elderly care and Child care?
January 30, 2021 23:46 - 25 minutes - 16.3 MBVideo AI is evolving and evolving rapidly in many segments such as healthcare for diagnostic purposes, MarTech for analyzing videos for brand recognition and Ad placement for example. Video AI usage in elderly care and child care are ripe for huge benefits as they require significant human participation. Video AI can address both costs as well as skill shortage in those areas. Personalization and analyzing consumer behavior are segments evolving for video AI usage. Still barriers exist in com...
Is Video Artificial Intelligence Ready for Prime Time?
January 29, 2021 02:19 - 28 minutes - 18.8 MBVideo AI is a growing market with lots of innovation. The Video AI market encompasses Video surveillance, Automatic/self-drive vehicles, content moderation in video, automatic video editing. Convolution Neural Networks is the backbone of Video AI in many applications and the challenge lies in training the data as well as abstracting the outcomes for better outpost. The field is still emerging and the technology is still evolving in many of these areas. As an example, even though Youtube would...
How to address the blind spots of data scientists
January 24, 2021 01:18 - 23 minutes - 15.6 MBA good data scientist is not only good at coding, tweaking models but is also good at assessing the outputs of the models in the context of business decisions. As data scientists spend upto 80% of their time data munging, they will be better off spending some quality upfront time with the business leaders asking questions about the customer journey and how the data is collected along the way. Even though the data scientists are not expected to be business domain experts, they should think of ...
Data Science teams need people with multiple skill sets
January 21, 2021 20:39 - 25 minutes - 16.8 MBData science career path doesn’t have to be purely technical. A data science team needs multiple skill sets. In this episode, Phil Bangayan, Principal Data Scientist at Teradata, talks about his career path from an electrical engineering background to MBA to Finance to Marketing and Data science. Phil talks about the need for the data science team to be able to communicate the outcomes of models in an understandable manner with CXOs. Phil also talks about the need for data science teams to ha...
What Does It Take To Be A Data Scientist?
January 14, 2021 22:52 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBHow does one get to be a Vice President of AI at a global semiconductor leader? What professional journey can take from a Ph. D. to that influential role? Patrick takes the audience on a journey from upbringing in Germany, Malaysia, Philippines to education in the UK to an initial job at Los Alamos lab to the CEO of a startup to VP at Samsung. Later on Patrick talks about the skills and experience needed to be a data scientist and the emphasis on communication and business acumen to be a succ...
Developing Practical AI Applications – Patrick Bangert
January 13, 2021 17:06 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBThe episode focuses on developing practical applications using AI. Patrick Bangert, as the head of AI Engg and AI services at Samsung SDS, is in charge of including AI in almost all Samsung applications that are deployed on Samsung phones. If anyone is interested in learning the various phases of developing AI applications, this is the episode. Patrick discusses the various phases such as developing models, training the models, and deploying the models. The episode also goes over the proper c...
Good Artificial Intelligence Governance is Good Business
January 05, 2021 18:44 - 21 minutes - 14.4 MBAI governance is about AI being explainable, transparent, and ethical. However, those three words mean different things to different organizations or functions within organizations, which results in slightly different definitions or descriptions of what AI governance is. David Van Bruwaene goes over his own professional journey which started with an undergrad degree in Philosophy. As he was traversing between philosophy and logic in his academia, David realized that data science and AI are ...
What is Responsible AI and Ethical AI?
January 04, 2021 17:57 - 28 minutes - 19.2 MBCan Artificial Intelligence help society as much as it helps business? Is this the golden age for AI but only for certain sections of the society and not for all? We need to establish ethical standards in dealing with artificial intelligence - and to answer the question: What still makes us as human beings unique? Mankind is still decades away from self-learning machines that are as intelligent as humans. But already today, chatbots, robots, digital assistants and other artificially intell...
Collaboration is key to formulate and implement Data strategy
December 22, 2020 06:19 - 23 minutes - 15 MBA data strategy and data policies resulting from the strategy should be a collaborative approach. Diane explains the process in which London Stock Exchange Group (LESG) went through the survey process to collaborate with stakeholders to get their feedback and in the process elevate the level of data literacy. The episode also covers how Diane started as a data modeler but took advantage of the opportunities thrown at her and worked hard to become a CDO. With respect to trends, Diane emphasize...
From a Data Modeler To Chief Data Officer
December 21, 2020 23:07 - 25 minutes - 16.9 MBThis episode with Diane Schmidt is an inspiring story of how to grow in a data career. Diane started her journey as a data modeler and gradually grew to become the chief data officer of London Stock Exchange. Diane is a student of Data and the episode covers all aspects of data analytics, data governance, and data strategy.
From Liberal Arts to Data and Analytics strategy advisor
December 15, 2020 18:38 - 24 minutes - 17.6 MBThe episode covers the professional journey of Jill Dyche from a liberal arts background to data strategy consulting founder to being an author of 4 books on data and analytics. The theme of her work as well as the books has been to extract the business value of data and technology. Jill has been able to combine both her passions of shelter dogs and analytics and apply analytics to deriving insights to increasing the adoption of shelter dogs.
The value of Strategy and Data Culture in organizations with Jill Dyche
December 15, 2020 18:27 - 20 minutes - 15 MBData mature companies tie their corporate objectives to data and analytics initiatives. It is no longer sufficient to focus on revenues and costs but leaders are looking at enhancing brand value with analytics. Given the higher purpose of data and analytics, strategy and data culture are critical in organizations. With the advent of AI, organizations need to reinvest in data and skillsets to forge ahead.
Three Most Important Legs of Information Management
December 14, 2020 07:25 - 21 minutes - 12.5 MBThe episode starts with a focus on the 3 legs of information management which are data quality, data sensitivity, and master data management. Later, the discussion focuses on advice to aspiring data management and data governance professionals about most resourceful web sites, conferences and certifications. The episode concludes with a discussion on data governance best practices which start by identifying top 10 reports.
Data Governance with a focus on Data monetization with Kevin Ladwig
December 12, 2020 07:34 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBOrganizations used to ask what and how when it came to data governance and now they have progressed to asking why. To a large extent this is driven by an intent to monetize data. Gradually we are also seeing data monetization officers in organizations. In order to be really successful with data governance, organizations need to look at capabilities from tops down and also assess current state from bottom up.
SMARTER framework to drive decisions using data
December 08, 2020 05:26 - 23 minutes - 16.6 MBData is meant to drive decisions. So start replacing the word data with decisions. For example, Chief Decision Officer instead of Chief Data Officer. Lori Silverman has summarized her years of experience into a framework called SMARTER to enable executives to focus on decisions using data. The framework will add analytical thinking to strategic thinking. All of this is only possible by increasing data literacy and data culture in organizations.
Data to Insights & Decisions to Actions with Lori Silverman
December 08, 2020 00:44 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBThe primary focus of a business driven organization should be to derive actionable insights based on data. So the focus should not be on data but on what insights help make decisions that they can implement. The episode discussion focuses on the challenges that CEOs are faced with respect to making decisions (right or wrong) and acting on the decisions made. Data should be secondary thought compared to the business decisions and the inputs to make those decisions.
Data Strategy for FinTech use cases such as Fraud Detection
December 03, 2020 01:54 - 32 minutes - 21.3 MBArtificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) has been extremely beneficial for some use cases such as fraud detection in FinTech sector. AIML enabled companies to do real-time fraud detection from what used to be a batch-oriented fraud detection. But to be able to do that, companies need to have an enterprise wide data platform. Additionally, organizations need to think through the entire process of AIML instrumentation to adopt to changing use cases and not just data and models. Lastl...
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Financial Sector – Shailendra Malik
December 02, 2020 22:37 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBFinancial institutions have been both leaders and laggards in adopting Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Shailendra Malik is the Tech delivery lead for DBS bank’s internal audit, a major financial institution in Asia based in SIngapore. Shaliendra walks us through the areas where banks are leading and also lagging in adopting modern technologies. Additionally, Shailendra talks about his pwn journey that took him across many countries and many domains. Lastly, he talked about a pro...
AI requires interdisciplinary teams, Quality Data & Explainability
December 01, 2020 04:35 - 24 minutes - 17 MBArtificial Intelligence and Machine Learning projects require interdisciplinary skills in devops, SW engineering in addition to hard core data science coding skills. Additionally, lot of rigor needs to be put into cleaning up the data that is fed into the models. On an interesting note, AI models can also be used for improving data quality as well. Lastly, Explainability of models and data is becoming important and as such explainability needs to be baked in.
A fascinating journey as the head of Artificial Intelligence with Fiona Browne
November 30, 2020 07:40 - 30 minutes - 18.9 MBFiona Browne is the head of Artificial Intelligence at Datactics. Her journey from an all-female school into computer science, a Ph. D. in BioInformatics, lecturer, and corporate experience in software engineering / development prepared her for her current position. The rigor/discipline in Ph.D., experience of dealing with large and incomplete datasets both in protein development Ph.D. projects and later in virtual telescopy was ideal for data science. As head of AI at Datactics, Fiona focuse...