by Sean Coté | Feb 19, 2024 | D3 Data, D3 Deep Dive, Data democratization, Data Highlights, Data Literacy, Detroit, Food Accessibility, Kit Frohardt-Lane
Food Insecurity: A persistent problem in Southeast Michigan Food insecurity, defined by Healthy People 2030 as “…a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food,” has been an ongoing reality in Southeast Michigan. Since...
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 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...
by d3wpadmin | Jul 22, 2021 | Cassie Kinsora, Data Literacy
In our recent PPP Loan Data blog, we reference both the median and the average, or mean, loan amounts for geographies in Michigan. These are two statistical measures that are used to determine a middle value for a set of numbers. But why are these numbers sometimes...
by d3wpadmin | May 21, 2014 | Data Literacy
Several years ago, One D began as an effort to bring together parallel research and resources aimed at facilitating and evaluating regional development in Southeast Michigan. Although One D disbanded in 2011, D3 continues to be a steward of the One D Scorecard –...
