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.