Gaining Insight by Disaggregating Geographic Areas
Blog post by Stephanie Quesnelle
April 8, 2024
Data Driven Detroit (D3)
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Detroit
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In an area with diverse groups of people, it can be particularly helpful to analyze these different groups separately. While exploring the birth data in Wayne County for 2017-2022 from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, we decided to look more closely at trends in Detroit. This served as a great case study for the importance of disaggregating data to smaller geographic regions, something D3 advocates for regularly.