Data stories

Data Driven Detroit is dedicated to helping community development through the sharing of data. Constantly working with community groups to create positive change, D3 uses data to fuel sound decisions.    In partnership with Starfish Family Services, a non-profit child...

This sure has been a wonderful week for public transit in Detroit! On Monday, Mayor Bing held a press conference featuring U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The Secretary announced the launch of an environmental study for the Woodward Avenue Light Rail...

Fawn Kern is a Highland Park resident and mother of a 19-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son. She’s an ordinary citizen who is doing something extraordinary—she’s working to make her city a better place for children and families. That’s no easy task in Highland...

I was disturbed by the story coming out of Eastpointe this week where police are investigating racial threats against African-American residents on the city’s south side. The black residents received letters demanding that they move “back across 8 Mile,” and were...

As the poster child for industrial decline , Detroit has become a favorite subject of study and dissection. It can be exhausting. But one of the benefits of the renewed interest in Detroit is that the city has the potential to benefit from all of the bright minds...

Last Friday, June 18, 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the State of Michigan had the second highest unemployment rate in the nation. This marked the first time since April 2006—49 consecutive months—that Michigan was not number one!  The dubious...