Wharton Research Data Services
WRDS is a leading business intelligence, data analytics, and research platform.
WRDS democratizes data access so that all disciplines, Accounting, Banking, Economics, ESG, Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, Marketing, and Statistics, can easily search for observations across the data repository.
Partnering with global vendors, WRDS hosts 350+TB of data — the broadest collection of data on the most robust computing infrastructure to give users the power to analyze complex information at speeds of up to 400 MB per second.
The WRDS client server uses SAS, Python, R, Stata, Matlab, etc.
WRDS supports over 75,000 commercial, academic, and government users at 500+ institutions in 38 countries.
Listed here are all available WRDS products & vendors, including sample data: https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/
Querying WRDS
- Programming with WRDSFind out how to access WRDS through SAS, Python, R, MATLAB, and Stata. The connection methods available are listed under each language.
- Video by WRDSComprehensive suite of support videos, including: CRSP basics, Introduction to Event Study, Using Python on WRDS, and more.
- WRDS Sample ProgramsWRDS Sample Programs provide sample examples of data-extraction and cover only the basic aspects of data processing. Researchers can use these sample programs as a starting point to retrieve a sample of interest using WRDS data sources.