Research Guides: Business : Time Series/Data Sets: Key Resources

Company & Financial Data Sets

Bloomberg
Real-time news, financial and economic data. Worldwide pricing of bonds, stocks, commodities, currencies, money markets, and mortgages, with historical data. Economic time series, company financial statements, press releases, analysts forecasts, company filings and prospectuses, executive profiles, and more. Bloomberg terminals are available in Feldberg Library.

Capital IQ
S&P Capital IQ provides a wealth of information on companies, markets and people. Covers market intelligence, financial analysis, screening and targeting, and relationships between people and organizations. Register for an account.

Datastream
Global historical data and analytics: equities, market indices, company accounts, macroeconomics, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, commodities and derivatives. Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly formats, covering 30+ years. Available within WRDS or by permission within LSEG Workspace.
FIVEProject
The FIVE Project aims to accelerate and broaden the reach of research on firm and industry evolution and related areas of entrepreneurship. Downloadable data sets include: historical workstation sales, photolightography, breweries, and shipbuilding.

Finaeon
FKA Global Financial Data. Financial and economic time series data covering 200 countries and 20,000 different data series. Includes data on markets from 1690, exchange rates from 1590, interest rates from 1700, commodities from 1500, and inflation from 1264.

International Financial Statistics Online
1948 to current. International Monetary Fund. Detailed tabulations of international and domestic finance data by country. Time series data summarize each country's balance of payments, with collateral data on major financial components such as trade and reserves, and data on exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, international transactions, prices, production, government finance, and interest rates.

MarketLine Advantage
Country-specific industry reports include market overviews, data, segmentation, outlook and five forces analysis. Company reports include financials, top competitors, deals and SWOT analyses.

SDC Platinum
SDC Platinum is a comprehensive financial transactions database, with content across new issues, M&A, syndicated loans, private equity, project finance, public finance, and more.

WRDS: Wharton Research Data Services
Wharton's business data research service - our subscription includes access to: Bank Regulatory, Blockholders, CBOE Indexes, COMPUSTAT, Compstat Global, CRSP, CUSIP, ComScore, DMEF Academic Data, Dow Jones, Eventus, FDIC, Fama French & Liquidity Factors, Federal Reserve Bank, IBES, LSEG, MFLINKS, Morningstar CISDM, Option Metrics, PHLX, Penn World Tables, SEC Order Execution, TRACE

Library Subscription Databases

Gallup Analytics
- U.S. Data: collected daily since 2008. Users can monitor data daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually, at the state and Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) level. Gallup U.S. polling data since the 1930s can be accessed using the Gallup Brain feature.
- World Polling Data: available since 2005 from more than 160 countries. 80 metrics are tracked as part of the Gallup Macroeconomic Path a behavioral-based leadership model for successful societies. See country specific results or make comparisons across countries and regions.
Users can create custom data tables, trends, charts, and scatterplots. You can export data to Excel.

Statista: the leading statistics portal
Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.
Sage Data Statistical Datasets
(fka Data Planet) Repository of standardized and structured statistical data: 25 billion data points in over 4.3 billion datasets sourced from over 70 authoritative government and private sources.
Subjects: Statistics and Data, Business/Finance, Social Sciences: Political Science (election data, campaign finance, lobbying revenue, etc.), criminal justice, social work, Demography, International Studies, Economics, Agriculture, Education, Nursing/Public Health, Environment/Climate Data/Energy and more. Help Guide

Policy Map
Easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US.

Journals

Journal of Big Data
Journal of Big Data publishes high-quality, scholarly research papers, methodologies and case studies covering a broad range of topics, from big data analytics to data-intensive computing and all applications of big data research.
More journals on data in the library catalog

Government Data Sources

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
Online database consisting of more than 148,000 economic data time series from 59 national, international, public, and private sources. FRED, created and maintained by Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data (ALFRED)
Allows you to retrieve vintage versions of economic data that were available on specific dates in history.
Federal Reserve Archive (FRASER)
Various types of publications that are primarily statistical in nature, including books, magazine series, and true statistical releases.
Data.gov
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
DataLumos
DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR itself might add to DataLumos.
Federal Reserve of New York
Housing and mortgage data.
U.S. Census Bureau Research Guide
US Census links and explanations and mapping software.

Social Science Data Repositories

Earthworks
Find maps and data
Harvard Dataverse
The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where they can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. Includes links to other Dataverses owned by other institutions and academic journals.
The Humanitarian Data Exchange
Includes two categories of data – curated indicators and user-contributed datasets. The Common Humanitarian Dataset: contains about 130 indicators, curated to ensure they are comparable across countries and have gone through a quality control process. They also have datasets that organizations have shared.
ICPSR- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Find & analyze data.
Qualitative Data Repository
The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) is a dedicated archive for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation) generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences. QDR provides search tools to facilitate the discovery of data, and also serves as a portal to material beyond its own holdings, with links to U.S. and international archives. The repository’s initial emphasis is on political science.

Free Publicly Available Data

Google Dataset Search
Search for datasets and related data spread across multiple data repositories on the web.
Open Data Portals around the World
Open Trade Statistics
Open Trade Statistics is an independent project that values reproducible research and provides tidy trade data. They are heavily inspired by R community values and Open Licenses views on freedom. They focus on commodities data and focus on data processing and reproducibility instead of data visualization.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Free Datasets
Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications.
Data USA
Data USA—a collaboration among Deloitte, Datawheel, and the MIT Media Lab—searches, compares, merges, and maps public government data to build visual narratives.
HPCC a LexisNexis Company
Free public data sources
MRAN- Manager R Archive Network: Data Sources on the Web
The following list of data sources has been collected and categorized for your convenience. The list has been limited to those for which there is a reasonably simple process for importing csv files. Most of the data sets listed below are free, however, some are not.

If an (R!) appears after source this means that the data are already in R format or there exist R commands for directly importing the data from R.
The Free 'Big Data' Sources Everyone Should Know
Free big data sources
Yahoo Webscope Datasets
Quandl
Delivers financial and economic data from hundreds of sources from website, API, or directly into dozens of tools. Free access, not premium.
Wolfram Data Repository
A public resource that hosts an expanding collection of computable datasets, curated and structured to be suitable for immediate use in computation, visualization, analysis and more. Get Wolfram : https://caligari.dartmouth.edu/public/downloads/mathematica/

Bankruptcy Data

UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database (BRD)
Dataset consisting of approximately 200 fields of data on each of the approximately one thousand large, public company bankruptcies filed in the United States Bankruptcy Courts since October 1, 1979, updated monthly. The purpose of the BRD is to promote research by providing a statistical-analysis-ready core of basic data.

Statistical Software

Computing at Dartmouth: Statistical Software Support
Statistical Software
This guide contains resources to assist faculty, researchers, staff, and students in learning statistical software, such as STATA, SAS, R, SPSS.