Business Analytics Guide

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.

Find data and begin exploring/analyzing. After logging in (registration required), use the main search box.

"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."

"Gain unprecedented access to individual-level datasets with real-world business contexts from our Corporate Partners."

"Working with UCSD, [Wharton Research Programming] have collected... Amazon product user reviews spanning nearly 22 (1996-2018) years."

Primarily financial data submitted with corporate filings to the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC). Full-text electronic filings documents are available.

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.

US 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.

"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."

Find available APIs, documentation, and support for accessing U.S. Census and related data.

Official U.S. government site providing public access to federal government datasets.

The 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."

Open data from the city of Philadelphia and other regional entities.

Retail 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.

"Working with UCSD, [Wharton Research Programming] have collected... Amazon product user reviews spanning nearly 22 (1996-2018) years."

"In partnership with The Annenberg School, [Wharton Research Programming] compiled a dataset of historical Tweets. Collection began in April 2012 and is ongoing."

"The datasets include LLMA (Loan-Level Market Analytics), MLS (Multiple Listing Enterprise Solutions), Deeds, and Tax History."

"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.

Harmonized 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).

Hospital 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.

Find data and begin exploring/analyzing. After logging in (registration required), use the main search box.

Datasets or excerpts intended to support public competition. Competitors are encouraged to submit solutions to a wide array of discreet challenges.

"Corpora that have been compiled and rigorously validated by others."

"This is a catalog of text data sources available to researchers at Penn."