Data stories
BlogInformation from the field that we find particularly relevant, engaging, or just plain interesting.
Partnering to Better Understand Opportunity Youth in Detroit
Data Driven Detroit is excited to announce a partnership with Microsoft, The Skillman Foundation, and Grow Detroit’s Young Talent (GDYT) to test out a new approach to measure “Opportunity Youth” (OY). OY are typically defined as young adults 16-24 years old who are...
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School District Shopping in Metro Detroit
At D3, we spend a lot of time thinking about making data more useful to people who are making decisions, and sometimes we re-discover just how challenging that can be when we want to use data to make a decision in our own lives. Making a choice about where to live,...
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Boom and Bust: Detroit’s Housing Construction Trends
The history of housing in Detroit has been told through historical accounts of rapid expansion and depopulation; of demographic change and racial segregation; and of “urban renewal” and displacement. More recently, though, narratives in media have centered on stemming...
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Looking Toward the Future of Detroit’s Rental Housing Landscape
When looking for an apartment to rent in Detroit, there’s no shortage of places to look. From Craigslist, apartments.com, Zillow, to Trulia, they all have troves of information for a renter on a budget. But these are only pieces of Detroit’s rental housing, and Data...
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Partnering to Support Kids and Education in Detroit
The Skillman Foundation has been one of Data Driven Detroit’s (D3) most consistent funders and partners. Since helping found D3, their support has allowed D3 to undertake some of its most impactful projects, including the Detroit Residential Parcel Survey, Motor City...
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Introducing: Our New and Improved Website
A little over a year ago, we wrote about our website and how it was…less than functional. The good news is that since then, we’ve been hard at work building a new website from scratch that's more useful all around. This new (beta) site makes it easier not only for us...
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