by d3wpadmin | Jan 11, 2012 | Louis Bach, Uncategorized
Our own Kurt Metzger was featured on today’s episode of the Craig Fahle Show on WDET, contributing to the ongoing series questioning what it would take for someone to move to Detroit. The series is an outgrowth of a dialogue that began back in December, when Toby...
by d3wpadmin | Jan 6, 2012 | Data Literacy, Detroit, Kurt Metzger
We at Data Driven Detroit (D3) take our data and our geographic definitions seriously. Last year we ranted about Forbes Magazine and their discussion about city crime rankings when they were actually discussing metropolitan areas. Even within metropolitan areas,...
by d3wpadmin | Jan 5, 2012 | Kevin Chapo
Please join us in bidding farewell to Kevin Chapo as he goes on to pursue other opportunities. Enjoy Kevin’s musings on a century-old proposal to build a stone pyramid in the city of Detroit. An interesting article about Detroit surfaced during D3’s hours...
by d3wpadmin | Dec 28, 2011 | Kurt Metzger
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 vote by the Troy City Council not to accept the Federal...
by d3wpadmin | Dec 22, 2011 | Kurt Metzger
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 through Data Driven Detroit by emailing Askkurt@datadrivendetroit.org)...