by d3wpadmin | May 9, 2019 | Jacob Yesh-Brochstein
Last year, Data Driven Detroit entered a partnership with Microsoft and The Skillman Foundation to coordinate the collective use of data on opportunity youth – young adults, 16-24 years old, who are neither working nor enrolled in school or a vocational training...
by d3wpadmin | Apr 9, 2019 | Stephanie Quesnelle
In March of this year, the City of Detroit’s Health Department released record-level data detailing all health inspections taking place in restaurants and food establishments in Detroit over the past few years. With that data, we decided to conduct a...
by d3wpadmin | Feb 18, 2019 | Lead, Stephanie Quesnelle
In the first blog of our “Beyond the Water” series, we explained the background of blood lead level testing and explored elevated blood lead level (EBLL) data for the entire state, comparing rates of lead exposure across Michigan. In this blog, we’re going to drill...
by d3wpadmin | Jan 10, 2019 | Stephanie Quesnelle
Over five years ago, my sister invited me into a 50 book challenge group on Facebook. The premise is simple, you commit to reading and sharing reviews on each of the 50 books you read over a year. Well, between grad school, moving states, new jobs, getting married,...
by d3wpadmin | Dec 19, 2018 | Lead, Noah Urban
In recent years, child exposure to lead has received a lot of attention in Michigan. From the Flint Water Crisis that began in 2014 to the Detroit Public Schools turning off drinking water in 2018 due to high levels of lead and copper in water fountains, a series of...
