CUTGroup Detroit

CUTGroup Detroit

Sign Up for CUTGroup The aim of Detroit’s Civic User Testing Group (CUTGroup) is to make civic websites and public apps more accessible to city residents. Launched in Summer 2016 with the support and partnership of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, the City of Detroit,...
Hope Starts Here

Hope Starts Here

A community visioning process focused on creative a comprehensive framework for the early childhood ecosystem in Detroit. The Kresge Foundation and The W.K. Kellogg Foundation teamed up to create Hope Starts Here, an initiative with the ambitious goal that by 2027,...
Turning The Corner

Turning The Corner

Exploring new methods to track neighborhood change closer to real time, understand how people feel about it, and provide the information to people who can actually do something about it.  Since April 2016, D3 worked to create a model of neighborhood change with...
History of D3

History of D3

Data Driven Detroit (D3) is an organization that values data—and how it can be used to help people. Keeping in line with our people-centric values, in January of 2022 D3 made the transition into a worker-owned cooperative. This change was in the works for several...
What is data

What is data

What is data? Data helps to provide insight into our world: as it existed in the past, exists now, and how it might be shaped in the future. Here at D3, we specialize in working with pieces of information that are measurable or verifiable, like numeric and spatial...