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 Thoughts

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      Making it through another birthday last Sunday made my thoughts go once again to the “Big R” – Retirement. While I can’t see myself giving up the “data business” entirely, nor divorcing myself from Da […Click title to read on]
    • When Demographic Analysis Causes Concern January 18, 2012
      In late December, the Census Bureau released its latest population estimates for the nation and states.  Since Michigan was the only state to lose population over the last decade, but appeared to be c […Click title to read on]
    • Another Nail in the Regional Transit Coffin December 28, 2011
      Just as I was making a partial recovery from the news of the Light Rail project cancellation, and fighting myself not to send a diatribe to the newspapers, I was greeted with the not wholly unexpected […Click title to read on]
    • Michigan Will Never Prosper When Politics Drives Every Decision! December 22, 2011
      You would think that gerrymandering the 14 remaining U.S. Congressional Districts and diluting Latino representation in both the Michigan House and Senate districts in Detroit (maps are available thro […Click title to read on]
    • Detroit Children and Families Lose Once Again September 11, 2011
      As Steve Neavling reported on September 9, “The City of Detroit chose not to apply for a $7.5-million grant that would have helped serve 1,500 low-income children through the education program Head St […Click title to read on]
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