by Sean Coté | Nov 26, 2025 | Ben Williams, D3 Data, Data democratization, Data Highlights, Detroit, Neighborhood Vitality Index, Stephanie Quesnelle
“I can’t recall ever Swag Surfing my way out of a data meeting, but more of them should end that way!” shared Laila Bell, Vice President of Learning and Impact at The Skillman Foundation, reflecting on her experience at Data Driven Detroit’s Neighborhood Vitality...
by Sean Coté | Sep 24, 2025 | D3 Data, D3 Deep Dive, Data democratization, Data Highlights, Detroit, Equity, Steph Zarb, Stephanie Quesnelle
Digital equity affects every aspect of Detroiters’ lives including access to education, work performance and opportunities, and social lives. Over the past year, D3 has worked closely with the City of Detroit to better understand the importance of internet access to...
by Sean Coté | Sep 8, 2025 | Ben Williams, D3 Data, Data democratization, Data Highlights, Detroit, Neighborhood Vitality Index, Stephanie Quesnelle
Sometimes data can feel a little distant, like it’s just numbers and charts. But we at Data Driven Detroit (D3) know that behind every data point is a real person, so data is really about people and their lives. That’s why we decided we had to do more than...
by Sean Coté | Oct 3, 2024 | Birthrate, D3 Data, D3 Deep Dive, Data democratization, Data Highlights, Detroit, Jacques Jones, Kit Frohardt-Lane, Sean Coté, Series
This blog post began as one in a series of investigations about reproductive behavior in Southeast Michigan. In particular, it was looking initially at the separate influences of race and ethnicity on variables such as the number of births, the ages at which women...
by Sean Coté | May 20, 2024 | Birthrate, D3 Data, D3 Deep Dive, Data democratization, Data Highlights, Detroit, Kit Frohardt-Lane, Series, Stephanie Quesnelle
Prenatal care programs are considered key interventions for increasing the likelihood of healthy outcomes for pregnant women and their babies. While prenatal care programs can take many forms, common to all are medical visits at recommended intervals as a means of...
by Sean Coté | Apr 8, 2024 | Birthrate, D3 Data, D3 Deep Dive, Data democratization, Data Highlights, Detroit, Kit Frohardt-Lane, Series, Stephanie Quesnelle
In an area with diverse groups of people, it can be particularly helpful to analyze these different groups separately. While exploring the birth data in Wayne County for 2017-2022 from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, we decided to look more...
