Data stories
BlogInformation from the field that we find particularly relevant, engaging, or just plain interesting.
Intern Love
This month D3 is celebrating our 14th anniversary, and though we haven’t had any interns since the early days of the pandemic, many people have done internships at D3 over the years and have made important contributions to help D3 become the community data hub that it...
Clarifying Literacy Rates in Detroit
A persistent datapoint in conversations about Detroit is that nearly ½ of Detroit residents are illiterate. We’ve addressed the problematic methodology of that datapoint before, but we often receive many questions about literacy in the city and Metro Detroit region...
Worker Ownership in Practice
For many who have never participated in ownership or leadership roles, the practicalities of being a worker owner might be a black box of unknowns. When we started the conversion to worker ownership, only Erica had high-level experience in leadership, and Stephanie...
Religious Institution Ownership in Detroit
Recently, D3 received a request for data about the number of places of worship and church-owned properties in the City of Detroit. Many churches in Detroit own additional property, such as lots adjacent to their building, or operate religious housing coalitions to...
Living & Working in Detroit: LEHD Employment Statistics
As part of updating a presentation on regional employment patterns, we created new graphics exploring the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) data, specifically looking at changes from 2015 to 2019. What is LEHD? The Longitudinal Employer-Household...
2020 American Community Survey Data: Margin of Error Analysis
As we’ve covered previously, data collection in a pandemic can be challenging. Similar to the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Census Bureau faced multiple challenges collecting data for the American Community Survey (ACS). This resulted in the Census Bureau not...
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