External Data Sources
Resources for the following industries include: Political, Regulatory, Real Estate, City, Finance, Geography and Climate, Legal, Technology, Healthcare. A curated and inexhaustive list of external data outside of WRDS. WRDS does not support data from any of these sources but offers this list as a helpful resource for researchers.
• City: cities open data depositories
• Finance: CorpWatch/IRS/FINRA/World Bank/FDIC/IMF/FRED/Census
• Geography & Climate Data: NOAA, HRSL data
• Healthcare (CMMS, IPUMS, Dartmouth Atlas, IHME Global Health
• Legal: ICIJ Offshore Leaks, PatentsView, OpenPolicing
• Other: Chronicle of Philanthropy, Data.gov, IMDB,ICPSR, Kaggle, ProPublica
• Political: FEC, Obama visitor logs, USASpending.gov, Financial Disclosure Reports, ProPublica’s Congress
• Real Estate: Zillow
• Regulatory: CFPB, FHFA, Form 5500 filings, OSHA, EPA, FDA, Form 990 e-filings, Pipeline & Hazardous Materials
• Technology: AWS Public Dataset, InstaCart Open Dataset, Stanford SNAP, Google BigQuery Public Database, IoT inspector
• Transportation: NYC Taxi/Limo Commission Data