Visual-Detroit

Detroit Fire Incidents Dashboard

I’ve just published a Detroit Fire Incidents Dashboard on Tableau Public, covering all calls between 2017 and 2025. The Detroit Open Data Portal is our data source. Here’s a screenshotContinue readingDetroit Fire Incidents Dashboard

DetroitFebruary 27, 2026February 26, 2026

Visualizing Detroit Fire Incidents Data in Cosmograph

The highly detailed Detroit Fire Incidents data set is available at the Detroit Open Data Portal. A key aspect of the data lies in its lat-lon geographic coordinates, making itContinue readingVisualizing Detroit Fire Incidents Data in Cosmograph

DetroitFebruary 24, 2026February 24, 2026

Visualizing Detroit Fire Incidents Data in Mapbox

DetroitFebruary 18, 2026February 18, 2026

Detroit Fire Incident Maps & Networks

I’ve been working recently with a fresh batch of Detroit Fire Incident data from Detroit’s Open Data Portal, which has led to submitting an entry in the Visualizing Detroit: TheContinue readingDetroit Fire Incident Maps & Networks

Detroit, MappingDecember 28, 2025December 28, 2025

MoGo Bike Stations Mapping

If all goes well, I’ll be using the wonderful Mapbox platform more frequently in 2026. I recently created a stylized map of Detroit MoGo (bike rentals) stations as a funContinue readingMoGo Bike Stations Mapping

CrimeMay 10, 2024May 10, 2024

Modern Slavery – It’s a Real Issue

Most Americans seem to have a myopic set of views when it comes to slavery, believing that it only existed in the US, and was eradicated forever by President LincolnContinue readingModern Slavery – It’s a Real Issue

Detroit, HousingMarch 6, 2024March 6, 2024

Detroit Housing Patterns Part 2

My previous post in this series took an initial look at Detroit listing prices from 2017-2023, using data from the Realtor.com website. In this post we’ll dive deeper into theContinue readingDetroit Housing Patterns Part 2

Detroit, HousingMarch 5, 2024March 5, 2024

Detroit Housing Patterns Part 1

My latest data adventure comes courtesy of a generous dataset sourced from the Realtor.com website. This data is aggregated at a monthly level across all zip codes (no individual salesContinue readingDetroit Housing Patterns Part 1

DetroitMarch 3, 2024March 3, 2024

Detroit Fire Data, Part 3

In my previous post, we saw that vehicle related incidents created more call volume than any other call types. As a refresher, here are the 2017-2023 aggregate volumes: In thisContinue readingDetroit Fire Data, Part 3

DetroitFebruary 29, 2024February 29, 2024

Detroit Fire Data, Part 2

In my last post I walked through some simple data wrangling processes used to create a more friendly and robust data source from the Detroit fire incidents data. In thisContinue readingDetroit Fire Data, Part 2

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