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Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast: How Data Helps Drive Detroit's Comeback With Garlin Gilchrist II

[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/dailydetroithappyhour/DD-4Happy-Hour-Garlin-GilchristII_mixdown.mp3″ social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_linkedin=”true” social_email=”true” ] Data is playing an important role in shaping the city and working to improve services. Our guest this episode is Garlin Gilchrist II, the City of Detroit’s Director of Innovation and Emerging Technology for an interesting conversation about how data has been making a differ...

DataDetroit RunKeeper

Check Out These Visualizations Of Where Detroit Bikes, Runs and Walks

Here’s where Metro Detroiters work out, and the cities that are the most active, but with the story told through visualized data. How was this made? The app RunKeeper took a sample of 1.5 million runs, walks and bike rides across the country and then mapped them as traces and put them over the street grid. The colors of the tracks show the route length, glowing white hot in the places where athletes most often travel. Longer routes over 20 miles render yellow, while shorter workouts range from...

DataDetroit Detroit Crime 2014

Murder Rate Dropping Again In Detroit, More Progress Still Needed

The murder rate and many other crime rates are on pace to be down in Detroit for 2014, but more progress is still needed. Detroit has had a second straight year of decline in murders and homicides. We’d thought we’d let the data tell the story in this case. You can mouse over or tap on the data points below to see the numbers behind them. Hat tip to The Detroit News. Other data sources include CityData and The City of Detroit....

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Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast: How Data Helps Drive Detroit's Comeback With Garlin Gilchrist II

Check Out These Visualizations Of Where Detroit Bikes, Runs and Walks

Murder Rate Dropping Again In Detroit, More Progress Still Needed