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The Census is Coming! The Census is Coming!
When the first U.S. census was conducted in 1790, cries of undercount were heard across the land. Surely there were more than about 4 million residents in the new nation! Ever since, the Census Bureau has made an effort to conduct an accurate count of every person1...
Driving Decisions with Data
I remember a few months ago, the New York Times reported about efforts underway in local governments across the country to make government data more accessible through the internet. The article asked a great question: “What good is a pile of data?” Not much good at...
A Booming Idea for Playgrounds
London is for swingers—especially those over the age of 65. One London neighborhood is actually designing an outdoor playground for Baby Boomers. The park will offer low-impact exercise equipment to help older people improve their balance, flexibility and muscle...
Haulin’ it out of Michigan
The moving industry’s numbers have been corroborated by the Census Bureau, which estimates that Michigan lost 278,000 persons to domestic out-migration[1] between 2006 and 2009. And our own Data Driven Detroit (D3) analysis of IRS migration data revealed that every...
Counting on Black History Month
With the 2010 census upon us, we at Data Driven Detroit have been working to educate "hard-to-count" populations about the importance of being counted. The NAACP's Legal Defense Fund estimates that Wayne County suffered an undercount of about 30,000 people in the 2000...
Can you bring yourself to work?
When asked to speak at a diversity conference, I began to conduct background research to supplement my demographic data. My research turned up an advertisement that I felt truly made the business case for diversity in all its categories. Here it is: When you left...
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