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Moms, Place, and Low Birth Weight, Part 2: Does Place Matter?
Please click on highlighted text for Part 1 and Part 3 This is the second in a three-part series examining correlates of low birth weight in babies born in 2010, 2011, and 2012 in Detroit, Wayne County outside of Detroit, Oakland County, and Macomb County. Low...
Data Show Where Detroit’s Students Live
Detroit is a big place, and the demand for schools can't be the same equally across the city, especially since there are such large differences between thriving and disinvested areas. Because the education landscape continues to be a topic of much discussion, we...
Exploring Student Dispersion Maps
Since the 2011-12 school year, Data Driven Detroit (D3) has created a series of maps that illustrate the spatial patterns related to where students from different areas in Detroit attend school or where students from different schools live (see our previous blog post...
Moms, Place, and Low Birth Weight, Part 1: Detroit
Please click on highlighted text for Part 2 and Part 3 In an influential January 30, 2014 Detroit News article entitled “Detroit is Deadliest City for Children,” the author, Karen Bouffard, wrote, “In 2010, Detroit (population about 713,000) and Cleveland (population...
Uphill Both Ways: Where are the Jobs in Metro Detroit?
This post is the second in a series focused on employment and commuting patterns in Detroit and the surrounding region. In the first post of the “Uphill Both Ways” series, we looked at employment of lower-earning residents in Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park...
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan Announces City Open Data Portal
Today, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan made a monumental announcement, releasing the City’s first Open Data Portal. The portal will provide access to many datasets that have never been released publicly for download, including data on building permits and crime. This...
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