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Celebrating the Data Guru
Today marks a bittersweet day in Data Driven Detroit’s history as we celebrate the achievements of Detroit’s own data guru and D3’s founding director, Kurt Metzger. This morning, Kurt was honored at a breakfast at Detroit’s Rattlesnake Club. Friends and colleagues...
Building the 2014 One D Scorecard with NiJeL: D3.js for D3
Data Driven Detroit (D3) launched the 2014 One D Scorecard in May (read more about that here). Today, we’re writing to share more about our process for making this interactive data tool through a Q & A with NiJeL, a team of data scientists and developers...
The Historic Resource Survey: Community Data Collection in Action
In November 2013, the Motor City Mapping project moved forward at a dizzying pace, with the goal of identifying every blighted structure and empty lot in the city of Detroit. Loveland Technologies was in the process of finalizing the Blexting application for the...
2014 National Day of Civic Hacking
Open Data Portals A critical component of equitable access to data is the ability to find and trust the information you seek. While D3 maintains an open data portal with a wide breadth of downloadable data, we also often use open data resources from other...
Detroit Blight Removal Task Force Releases Blight Plan and Recommendations Today
Data Driven Detroit (D3), an affiliate of Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA), is excited to participate in the release of the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force’s final report, “Every Neighborhood Has a Future…And It Doesn’t Include Blight.” Detroit Blight Removal...
2014 One D Scorecard Launches Today
Several years ago, One D began as an effort to bring together parallel research and resources aimed at facilitating and evaluating regional development in Southeast Michigan. Although One D disbanded in 2011, D3 continues to be a steward of the One D Scorecard –...
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