Two members of the Maryland Department of Planning weigh in on a recent article in the New York Times titled, “Why D.C. Is Doing So Well“
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As DC goes …
Posted in Demographic Trends, Economic Projections, Jobs & Employment, tagged Edge Cities, President Clinton, President Reagan, Washington on August 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The apartment boom
Posted in Economic Projections, Housing & Households, Jobs & Employment, tagged maryland, Multifamily housing on August 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The growth in the share of multifamily units in Maryland has been striking since the mid-2000s housing bubble burst. Multi-family housing — generally, apartments — made up 38 percent of all residential permitted units in 2011. That was the highest level since the early 1970s and well above typical rates over the last three decades. (more…)
Welcome to The Data Mine
Posted in Demographic Trends, Economic Projections, Housing & Households, Jobs & Employment, Population, U.S. Census Data, tagged Demographic & Socioeconomic Projections Unit, Maryland State Data Center, Richard Hall, United States Census Bureau on August 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »
My colleague John Coleman talks about the relationship between data, information and knowledge: How data is vital, but not so useful until it can be turned into information and then disseminated as knowledge. Our boss, the Secretary of Planning, Richard E. Hall, puts the process in more industrial terms: turning pig iron into steel into automobiles.
The point is: data is raw material. The public, government, business and other institutions receive enormous amounts of it every day. But the trick — in fact, often the line between success and failure — is the ability to make sense of it.
The D4TA M1NE 