Boston Area Research Initiative's Boston Data Portal

Welcome to the Boston Area Research Initiative's data library. Here you will find data describing the people, places, and events in the greater Boston area that have been made available for research. This includes a variety of data generated by academics, government agencies, and others.

When possible, we have made these data available for immediate download. In other cases, restrictions or sensitivities regarding the data make it necessary for those who want to use them to request permission in order to gain access. This may sometimes entail gaining permission also from your institution's Human Subjects Research Review Committee.

An important part of the BARI network is that researchers and policymakers communicate about their respective work. To this effect, we ask that anyone using the data on this site please report their findings back to those who originally contributed the data. Especially in the case of public agencies or community groups, such insights might be helpful in how they think about their operations or practices. Such communication might also lead to new and fruitful collaborations.

Also, as you work with the data and discover new things, or develop new ways to extract information from it, please use the comments page to share this knowledge with others, furthering the cumulative intelligence we have surrounding these data.

Finally, if you are the owner of data that you would like to include in the BARI library, or would like to request that a certain type of data be added to the library, please contact us at BARI@northeastern.edu.

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Mapping the Massachusetts Public Assistance System Dataverse(Northeastern University / Harvard University) Oct 4, 2017 This Dataverse contains Mapping the Massachusetts Public Assistance System Database. The contents of this database were constructed by Caitlin Carey and Marija Bingulac of the University of Massachusetts Boston's Center for Social Policy using publicly available 2015 Current Population Survey data. The final database details eligibility guidelines...
Boston Neighborhood Survey Dataverse(Northeastern University / Harvard University) Jun 22, 2017 The Boston Neighborhood Survey (BNS) was conducted by the Injury Control Research Center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). The BNS was a telephone survey administered to Boston residents over three waves, in 2006, 2008, and 2010. The survey covered topics ranging from public safety to collective efficacy to social networks.
Geographical Infrastructure v. 2017 Dataverse(Northeastern University / Harvard University) Jun 6, 2017Geographical Infrastructure for the City of Boston Dataverse The Boston Area Research Initiative’s Geographical Infrastructure for Boston is a database that organizes and links the places and regions of Boston, MA across 17 levels—including land parcels, streets, census geographies, and other administrative regions. The levels are organized in a hierarchy, with the items in each level nested in the higher-le...
Homicides in Boston (1963-2016) Sep 28, 2016 Wihbey, John, 2016, "Homicides in Boston (1963-2016)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1J0IBN, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Oh6kQ6YFlxXq0FnNIpHscA== [fileUNF] This dataset contains the structure and organization of the Homicides in Boston database, which draws off of Boston Police Department records to document those homicides that occurred in Boston from 1963 to September, 17 2016. The database was constructed by John Wihbey (Northeastern University School of Journalism) through a series of freedom of i...
Massachusetts Census Indicators Dataverse(Harvard University) May 12, 2016 This dataverse contains a curated set of indicators accessed or derived from the US Census and American Community Survey. The indicators are for all census tracts and block groups in Massachusetts and include annual updates of the ACS' five-year estimates and the decennial census.
Geographical Infrastructure v. 2010 Dataverse(Harvard University, Northeastern University) Feb 5, 2016Geographical Infrastructure for the City of Boston Dataverse Geographical Infrastructure for the city of Boston, as of 2010.
Geographical Infrastructure v. 2015 Dataverse(Harvard University, Northeastern University) Feb 1, 2016Geographical Infrastructure for the City of Boston Dataverse The Boston Area Research Initiative’s Geographical Infrastructure for Boston is a multipart database that compiles and connects the places and regions of Boston, MA as organized at 16 levels, each comprised of a data set containing the universe of all locations at that level. The levels are organized in a hierarchy, with the items in each level nes...
Geographical Infrastructure for the City of Boston Dataverse(Harvard University) Feb 1, 2016
Commonwealth Connect Dataverse(Harvard University, Northeastern University) Oct 16, 2015 This dataverse contains data from the Commonwealth Connect system. Data exists for multiple years and across multiple organizational levels. A documentation file exists with much more detailed information. Shapefiles exist for the years 2014 and 2015, but in other years, XY data can be mapped or the town files can be joined to the town files from 2...
Demography and Class, Work and Education in Boston, 1880-1930 Apr 2, 2015 Christina Groeger, 2015, "Demography and Class, Work and Education in Boston, 1880-1930", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28677, Harvard Dataverse, V2 This database, including both datasets and spatial shape files, contains information on occupation, school attendance, nativity, and race of the Boston population, by ward, for the years 1880, 1900, and 1930. This database can be used to visualize the profound changes in the economic, educational, and ethnic composition of Boston between 1880 and 1...

Mapping the Massachusetts Public Assistance System Dataverse(Northeastern University / Harvard University)

Oct 4, 2017

This Dataverse contains Mapping the Massachusetts Public Assistance System Database. The contents of this database were constructed by Caitlin Carey and Marija Bingulac of the University of Massachusetts Boston's Center for Social Policy using publicly available 2015 Current Population Survey data. The final database details eligibility guidelines...

Boston Neighborhood Survey Dataverse(Northeastern University / Harvard University)

Jun 22, 2017

The Boston Neighborhood Survey (BNS) was conducted by the Injury Control Research Center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). The BNS was a telephone survey administered to Boston residents over three waves, in 2006, 2008, and 2010. The survey covered topics ranging from public safety to collective efficacy to social networks.

Geographical Infrastructure v. 2017 Dataverse(Northeastern University / Harvard University)

Jun 6, 2017Geographical Infrastructure for the City of Boston Dataverse

The Boston Area Research Initiative’s Geographical Infrastructure for Boston is a database that organizes and links the places and regions of Boston, MA across 17 levels—including land parcels, streets, census geographies, and other administrative regions. The levels are organized in a hierarchy, with the items in each level nested in the higher-le...

Homicides in Boston (1963-2016)

Sep 28, 2016

Wihbey, John, 2016, "Homicides in Boston (1963-2016)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1J0IBN, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Oh6kQ6YFlxXq0FnNIpHscA== [fileUNF]

This dataset contains the structure and organization of the Homicides in Boston database, which draws off of Boston Police Department records to document those homicides that occurred in Boston from 1963 to September, 17 2016. The database was constructed by John Wihbey (Northeastern University School of Journalism) through a series of freedom of i...

Massachusetts Census Indicators Dataverse(Harvard University)

May 12, 2016

This dataverse contains a curated set of indicators accessed or derived from the US Census and American Community Survey. The indicators are for all census tracts and block groups in Massachusetts and include annual updates of the ACS' five-year estimates and the decennial census.

Geographical Infrastructure v. 2010 Dataverse(Harvard University, Northeastern University)

Feb 5, 2016Geographical Infrastructure for the City of Boston Dataverse

Geographical Infrastructure for the city of Boston, as of 2010.

Geographical Infrastructure v. 2015 Dataverse(Harvard University, Northeastern University)

Feb 1, 2016Geographical Infrastructure for the City of Boston Dataverse

The Boston Area Research Initiative’s Geographical Infrastructure for Boston is a multipart database that compiles and connects the places and regions of Boston, MA as organized at 16 levels, each comprised of a data set containing the universe of all locations at that level. The levels are organized in a hierarchy, with the items in each level nes...

Geographical Infrastructure for the City of Boston Dataverse(Harvard University)

Feb 1, 2016

Commonwealth Connect Dataverse(Harvard University, Northeastern University)

Oct 16, 2015

This dataverse contains data from the Commonwealth Connect system. Data exists for multiple years and across multiple organizational levels. A documentation file exists with much more detailed information. Shapefiles exist for the years 2014 and 2015, but in other years, XY data can be mapped or the town files can be joined to the town files from 2...

Demography and Class, Work and Education in Boston, 1880-1930

Apr 2, 2015

Christina Groeger, 2015, "Demography and Class, Work and Education in Boston, 1880-1930", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28677, Harvard Dataverse, V2

This database, including both datasets and spatial shape files, contains information on occupation, school attendance, nativity, and race of the Boston population, by ward, for the years 1880, 1900, and 1930. This database can be used to visualize the profound changes in the economic, educational, and ethnic composition of Boston between 1880 and 1...

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