Data stories

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...

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...

Unemployment almost doubled in Detroit between January 2008 and July 2009, rising from 14.8% to 28.9%. The real rate may be over 40%, according to Kurt Metzger, director of the Detroit area Community Information System

Tables. Pie charts. Histograms. Line graphs. Depicting data is our bread and butter, but we realize that it’s Greek to most people. That’s  why D-ACIS is using mapping technologies to help you visualize what numbers really mean. It’s so true: A picture really is worth...