Services

Downtown Detroit

Data Driven Detroit is a premier regional data collection, storage and analysis firm, recognized by the Urban Institute as a National Neighborhood Indicators Partner. D3 is a full-service organization that can help your agency organize data, evaluate programs, create maps, establish data management and retrieval systems and make sound, data-driven policy decisions.

D3 believes in the democratization of information through data sharing agreements with government agencies and nonprofits. Using advanced information technology, D3 analyzes neighborhood quality of life indicators such as health, crime, poverty, homeownership, education and income levels.

D3 currently offers the following products and services:

  • Data analysis
  • Neighborhood/area profiles
  • Analytical reports
  • Research synthesis
  • Community workshops
  • Spatialization/mapping
  • Surveys
  • Presentations
  • Indicator development
  • Database creation and maintenance
  • Data cleaning
  • Data and project consultations
  • Other value-added data analysis

Our primary functions include:

  • Collaborating with local government, community agencies, and other regional entities to access and develop unique datasets;
  • Conducting original research on a broad range of trends and demographic, socioeconomic, economic and housing conditions;
  • Using advanced technology to gather and analyze data to inform local decision-making; and,
  • Measuring results and reporting the outcomes of a wide variety of community change initiatives.

Please see our Projects page for examples of our services.

To download a selected listing of the data sets we have already processed, please click here.

If you would like to make a request for our services, please click here.
  • D3 Blog

    • Meet the D3 Staff: Jeffrey Bross
      May 31, 2013
      This Q&A is the fifth in a series of profiles of Data Driven Detroit staff members. When Project Manager Jeffrey Bross joined the team at Data Driven Detroi . . .
    • The Obama Effect: African Americans turned out last year in record numbers
      May 10, 2013
      One of the narratives that has come front and center in the last two Presidential Elections is that of race in America, with an emphasis on its role in the  Ame . . .
    • Thank you, Mario Goetz!
      April 18, 2013
      Mario Goetz joined the D3 team in January as a Semester in Detroit Intern. Mario is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in History and Social Theory in Practice at the . . .
    • Meet the D3 Staff: Rob Linn
      March 29, 2013
      This Q&A is the fourth in a series of profiles of Data Driven Detroit staff members. Rob Linn sports many hats in life; GIS Analyst, author and developer. R . . .
    • Michigan’s First Year of Population Growth Shows Wide Variations
      March 14, 2013
      The Census Bureau has released its latest population estimates for 2012 today.  The estimates cover metropolitan statistical areas, micropolitan statistical are . . .
    • Meet the D3 Staff: David Mieksztyn
      March 8, 2013
      This Q&A is the third in a series of profiles of Data Driven Detroit staff members. David Mieksztyn came to work at Data Driven Detroit after working on his . . .
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