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Feeding Inkster With Community Gardens
In 2010-2011, the National Kidney Foundation Michigan (NKFM) received a capacity-building grant from the Michigan Department of Community Health's Office of Minority Health to reduce minority health disparities in the community of Inkster in western Wayne County. The...
Meet the Staff: Nate Barnes, Research Analyst
The D3 staff blog will periodically profile our staff members, offering a picture of the analysts and other staffers behind Data Driven Detroit. Today, we feature research analyst Nate Barnes. After completing the undergraduate program in political science at...
Diversity is the Future for Michigan
The Census Bureau released its newest compilation of 2010 Census data for Michigan on March 8. This file allows us to understand the demographics of the growing racial and ethnic groups across our State and in our neighborhoods. While Data Driven Detroit will begin...
D3 Goes West: the Portland NNIP Conference
It can be tough out there for a data analyst; most people don’t quite understand what we do, so I just say “I make maps.” When they respond “Haven’t you heard of Google Maps?,” I can only stare forlornly. Luckily, D3 is not alone in this world. NNIP is a community...
A Fine-Grained Look at Food Accessibility
Researchers at Michigan State University have recently raised the bar for quantifying food accessibility. They visited 94 retail locations in Lansing and East Lansing and recorded the presence or absence of 447 food items. From there, they mapped the pedestrian and...
Beauty Truly is in the Eye of the Beholder!
I am sure that everyone reading this post has been to the Zoo at sometime in their life. I grew up going to the Cincinnati Zoo and have tried to visit others when in cities around the country. I remember being overwhelmed by the size of the Detroit Zoo when I first...
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