Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is a web-based data service from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. It provides research access to financial, economic, accounting, and marketing data from many different vendors which can be used with web based SAS/Studio, R/Studio Server and Python/JupyterHub. Best for faculty and doctoral students needing granular historical financial data who can use the data in conjunction with programming languages SAS Studio, R, or Python/Jupyter. The D-Lab is a resource for users who may need help with working with the data in these programming tools. For most users, we have many other financial databases that are easier to use.
Accessing WRDS:
Current Berkeley students, staff, and faculty can request an account for academic research with a @berkeley.edu email address. Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/register/. You may be asked to provide details of how you will use this data in your research.
Please allow 7 days for account approval.
Contact our Business Reference team or email us at haasref-library@berkeley.edu
Get Data (blue horizontal bar).
Select All Data.
Select Subscribed. (Right column)
Scroll to Datasets by Concept. (Right column)
OR. search by keyword such as stocks, futures, analyst etc.
Filter results by Content Type->Content, by Concept, by Vendor, by Region, etc.
IMPORTANT: Look at manuals for each dataset in WRDS.
Additional WRDS Training and Videos for different datasets
How to use WRDS in programming languages: SAS, R, Python/Jupyter