About

Massachusetts Data Hub is a public record of what the Commonwealth charges, spends and reports — assembled from primary government sources and published so anyone can check the arithmetic.

Duncan Burns

A U.S. Air Force veteran and UMass graduate. Operations Manager at Bentley’s Real Estate in Greater Newburyport, where ten years of marketing, compliance and training sit behind a brokerage that has held first place in its market for seven consecutive years, took Essex County in 2022, and appears in The Wall Street Journal’s REALTRENDS “The Thousand”. A licensed Massachusetts real estate agent and Notary Public.

He has written op-eds for The Valley Patriot since 2016 and took its Editor’s Choice Award that year. A North Shore native, he lives in the Merrimack Valley.

I believe in liberty, and there can’t be liberty without an equal rule of law. I built this data hub of public information to use as a shield and a sword against the enemies within.

Information like this should always be free, and the public should always have access to it as a means to keep checks and balances upon their own government. Unfortunately for Massachusetts residents, our government has made Massachusetts the most opaque, and arguably the most corrupt (pay-to-play), in the nation.

Duncan Burns

This started in print

The questions on this site are not new ones. They ran in The Valley Patriot first, and the dashboards exist because a column can make an argument but cannot show you the arithmetic.

• How Beacon Hill Is Bankrupting the Merrimack Valley
• H-1B Foreign Workers Are Destroying Merrimack Valley Economy
• Akamai Uses Tax Breaks to Hire H1B Foreign Workers
• The Battle of Unequitable Liberty in Massachusetts

The full archive, 2016 to 2026 ↗

How the figures are handled

Every figure is traceable. Nothing is modelled, estimated or smoothed unless the dashboard says so in plain language and names the method. Where two official sources disagree, both are shown rather than averaged. The instrument on the front page carries all 351 municipalities at their real geometry; the dashboards behind it hold the detail, each with its own source vintage.

And how they stay current

There is no site-wide “updated” date, because one would only tell you when a script last ran. Nine pipelines refresh on their own clocks, matched to when each source actually publishes.

Built and maintained in the open. The full source, the data files and every revision are in the GitHub repository.