A Fresh Look at a Familiar Voice
Asemio Decoded is back for our fourth season! We are so excited to reintroduce you to Dr. Amy O’Hara from the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown University with this updated interview from 2022.
In Decoding Administrative Data, we sat down with Dr. O’Hara to discuss her background in economics, her work at the U.S. Census Bureau, and how it all led her to her current role as a professor and a leading advocate for the use of administrative data to improve policy decisions. We share a 2025 take on some of the topics that we covered in the original interview, break down topics like PETs and study bias, and Amy points out barriers holding researchers and scientists back from utilizing administrative data to its fullest potential.
Further Reading:
- How To Build Urban Data Infrastructure and Avoid Digital Displacement (Asemio x TIL)
- Architecting Resilient and Adaptive Communities Through Technological Innovation (Asemio)
- Strengthening interdisciplinarity in science communication education: promise, pleasures and problems
- Evaluation and utilisation of privacy enhancing technologies—A data spaces perspective
- The Evidence Act (2018)
- Study Bias – StatPearls – NCBI Bookshelf
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Expiration of Pandemic Relief Led to Record Increases in Poverty and Child Poverty in 2022
- Administrative Data: U.S. Census Bureau
- Georgetown University Faculty Directory: Dr. Amy O’Hara
Asemio Decoded is co-produced by Erin Powell and Matt Stoker.
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