Why does mindful data use matter?
Data is constantly changing, especially during turbulent times like a pandemic. Being mindful about how you are reading each news story and new set of numbers that’s presented will help you to understand the full story and impact on current events.
Our Guide to Data Consumption
The first step to making the best possible use out of the data that’s presented is to be mindful of context and keep data points in perspective.
We’ve written several guides to responsible data consumption and interpretation to help identify context when reading media-reported data:
Understanding Data in a Pandemic
A Guide to Conscious Data Consumption
Our COVID-19 Response
To help our community better visualize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and identify the populations that need the most help.
Take a look at our vulnerable populations map below:
At the beginning of the pandemic, we also created a map detailing the number of cases and deaths per capita by county. However, since that time, news and health organizations have published more timely and accurate data sources for this information, and we have decommissioned this tool.
Read more about our data-driven response to the pandemic in our series of blogs, which detail the impact COVID-19 has had on our community.
What do we know we don’t know?
Learn More
Navigating the ever-changing landscape of pandemic data can be challenging. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite reliable resources to help.
Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model
By Maggie Koerth, Laura Bronner and Jasmine Mithani
Here we are, in the middle of a pandemic, staring out our living room windows like aquarium fish. The question on everybody’s minds: How bad will this really get? Followed quickly by: Seriously, how long am I going to have to live cooped up like this? READ MORE
Here are some other great sources of pandemic data and consumption guides:
Five Powerful Charts | Coronavirus Case Counts are Meaningless* | Michigan.gov Coronavirus Resources | Michigan.gov COVID-19 Data | Healthdata.org COVID-19 Death Projections | Best-Case and Worst-Case Forecasts | Unemployment Impact | Employment Impact by Industry | Michigan Employment Snapshot | Impact on the US Census | US Coronavirus Pandemic Data in Numbers
We’re all in this together, Detroit!
We want to answer all of your data-driven questions about COVID-19 and its impact on our community. If there’s something you want to know, just AskD3!