Data stories
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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...
Uphill Both Ways: Chronicling Metro Detroit’s Transit Mismatch
This is the first post in a new D3 blog series looking at employment and commuting patterns in Detroit and the surrounding region. The recent Detroit Free Press feature on James Robertson, a Detroit resident who faces a four-hour commute to his job in Rochester that...
Four Seasons of Data: Celebrating 15 Months of Motor City Mapping
Since October 2013, Data Driven Detroit (D3) has had the pleasure of collaborating on Motor City Mapping, a massive project that has included hundreds of people devoting thousands of hours to data collection, cleaning, and analysis. It’s the culmination of a process...
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