by Sean Coté | Nov 8, 2023 | D3 Data, Data Highlights, Detroit, Food Accessibility
Brenna Friday and David Criss are graduate students at Wayne State University (WSU) who are dedicated to studying the drivers and consequences of food insecurity in Detroit, Michigan. Their work in this field is made possible through the support of the Transformative...
by Sean Coté | May 31, 2023 | D3 Data, Data democratization, data literacy
When we think about data collection, many people want to jump right into the process of asking questions. But it’s important to step back and think about the whole picture. As part of developing Data University courses, we’ve developed workshops, handouts, and blog...
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 d3wpadmin | Jun 10, 2021 | Cassie Kinsora, D3 Data
Sometimes, current events move quickly, and data changes just as rapidly. This has been the case with the American housing market over the last several years, and, very recently, with the COVID-19 pandemic. During these times when there’s a rapid influx of...
by d3wpadmin | Feb 1, 2018 | D3 Data, Stephanie Quesnelle
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a federally funded block grant. States operate a variety of programs utilizing this funding, but they must fall under one of the four purposes of TANF: Provide assistance to needy families so that children can be cared...
by d3wpadmin | Oct 9, 2017 | D3 Data, Kit Frohardt-Lane
The Issue As part of a project for Forgotten Harvest, a Detroit area food bank, Data Driven Detroit was asked to construct a single measure that would quantify food insecurity levels by census tract in the tri-county area of southeast Michigan (Wayne, Oakland, and...
