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By Louis Bach, Communications It’s the season of giving, and the Atlantic Cities has given us a recap of the ten best new urban data sets of 2011. The list illustrates the trend of city governments making public data sets actually available to the public. The list is quite eclectic, including: Code violations [Read on...]     By Louis Bach, Communications City crime rankings imply distributions of crime like illustration C, with uniform crime rates within a city that change suddenly at a city border. Crime occurs more frequently in patterns like illustration D, with crime focused around a hot spot and diminishing with distance. Source: NIJ In October, D3 responded [Read on...] D3 is pleased to announce an exciting expansion of our extended family. World, meet our new Junior Analyst, Claire Elizabeth Fulton. Claire joined the team this morning shortly before 10:45 AM. She weighs 7 lbs 10 oz and is 20.5 inches long. Detroit’s Population Center Has Shifted Northwest 1.5 Feet Per Day Since 1970 by Rob Linn, GIS SpecialistIn all of the coverage and analysis surrounding the release of the 2010 Census results, another significant landmark passed by seemingly unnoticed. Between 2000 and 2010, the center of the metropolitan population moved 3,842 feet to the northwest, to [Read on...] By Danny Devries, Data Analyst & Louis Bach, Communications It seems that if you spend enough time in Detroit, someone will, sooner or later, tell you that half of the city’s population is illiterate. It happened to us most recently on the December 1st episode of the Craig Fahle show when a caller rang in and [Read on...] By Lisa Rayle, Transportation Consultant Detroit’s downtown street grid in 1896. Block edges that have since been lost are highlighted in yellow. Source: B. Ryan As Detroiters visit a festive Campus Martius Park this holiday season, they might be inspired to imagine how downtown felt in the 1920s, when the buildings were new [Read on...] By Louis Bach, Communications Amtrak has announced that they are upgrading the infrastructure on their Detroit-Chicago line: A $196 million grant will reduce train travel time by 30 minutes between Detroit and Chicago. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood awarded the grant to the Michigan Department of Transportation for track and signal improvements between [Read on...] |
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