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Moms, Place, and Low Birth Weight, Part 3: Place and Race Together
Please click on highlighted text for Part 1 and Part 2 This is the third in a three-part blog series examining correlates of low birth weight in babies born in 2010, 2011, and 2012 in Detroit, Wayne County outside of Detroit, Oakland, and Macomb counties. Low...
Getting “Trashed” on Opening Day, 2015
We at D3, like many people throughout Detroit, love the Tigers Opening Day celebration. It is a special day that marks the beginning of warm weather, outdoor activities and of course another hopeful season of baseball. Each year throngs of Tigers fans (and those who...
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...
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