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WRDS: Guides and Support to WRDS

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is a web-based business data research service from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

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Guides and Support to WRDS

Guides to WRDS

References to Guides and other Support:

Introduction Manual Compustat North America (WRDS)
Guide from Aarhus School of Business
WRDS Web Demo
Follow this link to see a WRDS Demo. You don't have to be registered in order to look into this demo.
The WRDS web site offers the documentation and description of all databases available. Each database is accompanied by a general description, various components of the database, descriptions of variables, access to manuals and a FAQ section.

WRDS Support

WRDS provides you with a lot of guides and support:

Support: learn about the available data sets at WRDS, how to access them remotely or on our WRDS Cloud high-performance computing cluster, and how to use our data in your research

VIDEO: here you can find several video tutorials and guides