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 | 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...
by Stephanie | Mar 25, 2024 | Data Highlights, Education, Sean Coté, Stephanie Quesnelle
Recently we’ve had requests to look deeper into data about kids in highly chartered communities. Here are some things that we’ve learned. Charter schools, officially known as Public School Academies in Michigan, are state-supported public schools operating under a...
by Stephanie | Jun 23, 2022 | D3 Deep Dive, Detroit, Neighborhoods, Stephanie Quesnelle
Recently, D3 received a request for data about the number of places of worship and church-owned properties in the City of Detroit. Many churches in Detroit own additional property, such as lots adjacent to their building, or operate religious housing coalitions to...
