by Sean Coté | Mar 16, 2023 | D3 Data, D3 Deep Dive, Data democratization, Data Literacy
Whether through pie charts and bar charts or infographics, visualizing data is common in journalistic publications and annual reports alike, helping us to interpret data that may be challenging to understand if presented only in numbers on a spreadsheet. While visual...
by Sean Coté | Jan 23, 2023 | About D3, Worker Ownership Series
D3’s transition to worker ownership was supported by many professionals along the way. One of the best resources was people who had “been there done that” or were also in the process of building their own worker-owned coop, especially Eric Anderson at Book Suey. ...
by Sean Coté | Nov 21, 2022 | About D3, D3 Staff, Meet the Staff
Where did you grow up? I grew up around Southeast Michigan. I spent most of my childhood in Redford and then spent my high school and college years around Ann Arbor. What is your degree in? Why did you choose that degree? I have a degree in English. I chose it because...
by Sean Coté | Oct 26, 2022 | About D3, Boitshoko Molefhi, D3 Staff, Daniel Newton, Zach Brown
This month D3 is celebrating our 14th anniversary, and though we haven’t had any interns since the early days of the pandemic, many people have done internships at D3 over the years and have made important contributions to help D3 become the community data hub that it...
by Sean Coté | Aug 22, 2022 | Data Highlights, Data Literacy, Demographics, Detroit, Education, literacy
A persistent datapoint in conversations about Detroit is that nearly ½ of Detroit residents are illiterate. We’ve addressed the problematic methodology of that datapoint before, but we often receive many questions about literacy in the city and Metro Detroit region...
