Quick Intro to WRDS

WRDS guides you through the website and introduces you to query pages, innovative tools, comprehensive resources, and research support.

WRDS democratizes data access so that all disciplines can easily search for concepts across the data repository — hosting the broadest collection of data on the most robust computing infrastructure.

  • Getting Started
  • What Data is in WRDS
  • Conducting a Research Query
  • Analytics by WRDS
  • Research Tools, Sample Programs, and more
  • WRDS Research Support

Flexible data delivery options include a powerful web query method that reduces research time; the WRDS Cloud for executing research and strategy development; and the WRDS client server using SAS, Python, R, Stata, Matlab, and more. Our rigorous data review and validation give users the confidence to tailor research and create a wide range of reliable data models.