Data stories
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D3 Maps its way around the world
Data and Mapping page on our website continues to drive the most traffic. In fact, our maps have been used everywhere from Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s community meetings on reinventing the city, to community meetings in Inkster about the location of social services....
Your Facebook status could increase your insurance premiums
By now you know that colleges, universities and potential employers scour the social networks before making admission or employment decisions. But I’ll be you never guessed that what you post on Facebook could affect your insurance premiums! According to the Wall...
Untying the knot: Is marriage becoming obsolete?
Whenever I talk to parents of 20-somethings, all I ever hear is “Don’t rush them into marriage; they’re too young.” In 1960, two-thirds of young people in their 20s were married. Today, it’s less than one-third. According to the Census Bureau, the median age at first...
Lessons from the past by a man who lived it
On Friday, October 29, I had the privilege of serving as keynote speaker for the conference titled From Redlining to White Flight: The History of Housing Segregation & The Importance of Regionalism." The conference was a partnership between the Michigan Roundtable...
100 million Teenie Beanie Babies can’t be THAT wrong!
We are always hearing that trends start on the coasts and head inland. Luckily Michigan and other Midwest states don’t always follow those trends – particularly the ones that get their start in California (although we might want to follow California’s winning ways in...
A holiday you can count on!
How excited am I?? The United Nations General Assembly has designated Oct. 20, 2010, as the first-ever World Statistics Day (WSD) - a day created to recognize the achievements the global statistics systems at both national and international levels. Statistical...
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