WRDS
Overview
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is a leading business intelligence, data analytics, and research platform that enables web-based query to extract and output data from multiple data sources. WRDS hosts 350+TB of data – across all disciplines, including accounting, banking, economics, ESG, finance, healthcare, insurance, marketing, and statistics – giving users the power to analyze complex information and create a wide range of reliable data models.
How to get access
WRDS it is a subscription financial data repository, aggregated by the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. WRDS is managed by the Illinois College of Business and its primary audience is business school faculty and doctoral students of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC).
It is available for on campus affiliates through Business Information Services. It is for scholarly use only and not for commercial research. It is not accessible to the general public, UIC or UIS affiliates, or alumni.