Business FAQ
Quick start
- WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)Proprietary business and finance data from providers such as S&P. Select and use data through the web interface, via statistical software integrations, or on the WRDS cloud servers. Requires registration.
- data.worldFind data and begin exploring/analyzing. After logging in (registration required), use the main search box.
Company datasets
- AIAB Research Opportunities"Supplement your academic research with real-world datasets, working alongside AI and Analytics for Business and Corporate Partners to solve complex business problems through innovative research projects."
- AIAB Student Data Portal"Gain unprecedented access to individual-level datasets with real-world business contexts from our Corporate Partners."
- Amazon User Review Database"Working with UCSD, [Wharton Research Programming] have collected... Amazon product user reviews spanning nearly 22 (1996-2018) years."
- EDGAR (SEC filings) APIsPrimarily financial data submitted with corporate filings to the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC). Full-text electronic filings documents are available. - WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)Most datasets track financial markets or company performance. Log in (registration required). Along the right of the Get Data landing page, select Concepts to find and extract data by topic.
Government and economic datasets
- IPUMSUS and international census and survey data. Select a dataset from the landing page and click Visit Site. Click Get Data and follow the prompts to generate and extract a custom table. Log in (registration required) to access your history of tables.
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - Public Use Data Archive"The NBER data collection here is an eclectic mix of public use economic, demographic, and enterprise data obtained over the years to satisfy the specific requests of NBER affiliated researchers for particular projects. There are also files created as the output of NBER projects and intended for wider use."
- Census.gov Data APIsFind available APIs, documentation, and support for accessing U.S. Census and related data.
- Data.govOfficial U.S. government site providing public access to federal government datasets.
- Philadelphia FSRDC data requests through PWBMThe Philadelphia Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) offers access to "non-public microdata collected by the U.S. Census Bureau and other government agencies. These datasets are among the largest and most important sources of statistical information in the US and many of them can only be accessed through a FSRDC."
- OpenDataPhillyOpen data from the city of Philadelphia and other regional entities.
Customer and user datasets
- WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) - ComscoreRetail e-commerce browsing and checkout data at the customer and item levels. Log in (registration required). From the Get Data landing page, select Comscore. Select a year and level of measurement. Follow the provided steps to extract data.
- Amazon User Review Database"Working with UCSD, [Wharton Research Programming] have collected... Amazon product user reviews spanning nearly 22 (1996-2018) years."
- Historical Tweets (Twitter)"In partnership with The Annenberg School, [Wharton Research Programming] compiled a dataset of historical Tweets. Collection began in April 2012 and is ongoing."
- Corelogic Real Estate Databases"The datasets include LLMA (Loan-Level Market Analytics), MLS (Multiple Listing Enterprise Solutions), Deeds, and Tax History."
- Nielsen Consumer Panel or Retail Scanner data via Kilts Center"The Kilts Center for Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business provides multiple consumer and media datasets to academic researchers." Requires registration.
Healthcare datasets
- IPUMS Health SurveysHarmonized data from US national surveys on self-reported health and health care access information, the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS, 1963-present) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS, 1996-present).
- WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) - American Hospital Association surveyHospital operations survey responses. Log in (registration required). From the Get Data landing page, select American Hospital Association. Select a time period and topic. Follow the provided steps to extract data.
Miscellaneous datasets
- data.worldFind data and begin exploring/analyzing. After logging in (registration required), use the main search box.
- Kaggle DatasetsDatasets or excerpts intended to support public competition. Competitors are encouraged to submit solutions to a wide array of discreet challenges.
- Text Mining at Penn Libraries - Existing Corpora"Corpora that have been compiled and rigorously validated by others."
- Text Mining at Penn Libraries - Sources of Text Data"This is a catalog of text data sources available to researchers at Penn."
