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Data Driven Detroit (D3) provides accessible, high-quality information and analysis to drive decision-making that strengthens communities in Southeast Michigan.

ANOTHER FINE MESS: Mass Confusion on Literacy Rates in Detroit

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...]

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December 8th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Danny Devries, data literacy, literacy, Louis Bach | 12 comments

Detroit ranks 17th, Not First, in Crime

OR Ten Reasons Not to Trust Top Ten Lists

 

By Data Driven Detroit Staff

Data Driven Detroit’s mission is to provide up-to-date, objective information to inform better decisions.  Often that information is negative and our first inclination is to run away from it.  Accurate information is purely information that, whether negative or positive, [Read on...]

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October 6th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Crime, D3 Staff | 4 comments