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  • Big Data Backs Up Hunches—and Offers Some Surprises

    [Excerpt] Grubbs and others from the community gathered at the Institute Library on Chapel Street Wednesday evening to talk about that report, the Greater New Haven Community Index 2013, and about its real-world implications in New Haven.

    December 12, 2013

  • Local panel discusses data as a tool for Greater New Haven

    [Excerpt] The report, written by Mark Abraham, executive director of DataHaven, has gotten high praise for its compilation of data benchmarking economic opportunity, health needs and the civic life of Greater New Haven residents.

    December 11, 2013

  • Opportunity limited in Elm City

    [Excerpt] Economic opportunity in the Greater New Haven area has remained stagnant in the past decade, according to a report released in late September by the nonprofit group DataHaven.

    October 15, 2013

  • Elm City combats infant mortality

    [Excerpt] From 2003–2009, 12 out of every 1000 babies born in New Haven died, and a higher percengtage of those deaths were African American children, according to the Community Health Index recently published by DataHaven.

    October 11, 2013

  • Speaking by the Numbers

    [Excerpt]:  "Eyes calmly scanning his two monitors and the documents spread out before him, Abraham has the demeanor of a Buddhist monk.“Mark is incredibly perceptive,” said Jim Farnam. “He presents things in a low-key but effective way.”

    October 11, 2013

  • Obesity plagues Elm City

    [Excerpt] Obesity and diabetes are far more prevalent in low-income New Haven neighborhoods than in their high-income counterparts, according to a newly released report by DataHaven, a local non-profit run by a Yale alumnus.

    October 09, 2013

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