by d3wpadmin | Mar 26, 2015 | Data Highlights, Education, Joshua Long
Detroit is a big place, and the demand for schools can’t be the same equally across the city, especially since there are such large differences between thriving and disinvested areas. Because the education landscape continues to be a topic of much...
by d3wpadmin | Mar 23, 2015 | Data Highlights, Education, Joshua Long
Since the 2011-12 school year, Data Driven Detroit (D3) has created a series of maps that illustrate the spatial patterns related to where students from different areas in Detroit attend school or where students from different schools live (see our previous blog post...
by d3wpadmin | Mar 12, 2015 | Birthrate, D3 Deep Dive, Series
Please click on highlighted text for Part 2 and Part 3 In an influential January 30, 2014 Detroit News article entitled “Detroit is Deadliest City for Children,” the author, Karen Bouffard, wrote, “In 2010, Detroit (population about 713,000) and Cleveland (population...
by d3wpadmin | Mar 4, 2015 | Economy, Uphill Both Ways
This post is the second in a series focused on employment and commuting patterns in Detroit and the surrounding region. In the first post of the “Uphill Both Ways” series, we looked at employment of lower-earning residents in Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park...
by d3wpadmin | Feb 19, 2015 | Data democratization
Today, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan made a monumental announcement, releasing the City’s first Open Data Portal. The portal will provide access to many datasets that have never been released publicly for download, including data on building permits and crime. This...
