Gaining Insight by Disaggregating Geographic Areas
Blog post by Stephanie Quesnelle
April 8, 2024
Data Driven Detroit (D3) (Detroit)
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.