Data stories
BlogInformation from the field that we find particularly relevant, engaging, or just plain interesting.
A City Offline: Bridging Detroit’s Digital Divide
As many as 40% of Detroit residents do not have an internet connection in their home (see map below). Reasons can range widely from high cost to high intimidation, and language and age to digital literacy. Regardless of the reason, any resident affected by digital...
Leveraging Local Partnerships to Teach the Fundamentals of Data
In the digital age, data is omnipresent in our daily lives – everything we do, everything we interact with, creates some form of data. Similarly, being able to understand and work with data has never been more critical in the professional world, both in the for-profit...
Unresolved Detroit Restaurant Health Code Violations and Other Findings
In March of 2019, the City of Detroit’s Health Department released extensive data concerning health inspections in restaurants and other food establishments. Information can be found on specific establishments, including individual violation reports and summaries,...
Hopping Hurdles: Anonymizing Personally Identifiable Data to Foster Collaboration
Last year, Data Driven Detroit entered a partnership with Microsoft and The Skillman Foundation to coordinate the collective use of data on opportunity youth – young adults, 16-24 years old, who are neither working nor enrolled in school or a vocational training...
Restaurant Health Code Violations in Detroit
In March of this year, the City of Detroit's Health Department released record-level data detailing all health inspections taking place in restaurants and food establishments in Detroit over the past few years. With that data, we decided to conduct a quantitative...
Beyond the Water: Lead Exposure in Detroit’s Children
In the first blog of our “Beyond the Water” series, we explained the background of blood lead level testing and explored elevated blood lead level (EBLL) data for the entire state, comparing rates of lead exposure across Michigan. In this blog, we’re going to drill...
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