Social scientists at Indiana University-Bloomington have access to a wealth of data through our memberships and campus research centers. Read more below about some of the most popular data resources available to social scientists through the SSRC and other campus centers.
Researchers at IU Bloomington can also draw on data resources from the IU Network Science Institute (IUNI), the Collaborative Archive & Data Research Environment (CADRE), the Kelley School of Business, and more.
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) provides access to databases in the fields of finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy. Additional information is available through the Kelley School of Business, and IU-Bloomington faculty, staff, and graduate students can request an account here.
Nielsen marketing data from the Marketing Data Center at Chicago Booth: The Kelley School of Business subscribes to Nielsen marketing data, including consumer panel data, retail scanner data, and Price-Trak (from Promodata). Only tenure-track faculty, PhD students, and postdocs are eligible to access the datasets; users must comply with several policies and requirements. To gain access to the data, please contact Craig Eich (ceich@indiana.edu) to receive a single user registration code that you will use to register online with the Marketing Data Center. Please put Nielsen in the subject line. Once approved through their database, you will receive instructions on how to access the data to which we are subscribed.
The IU Network Science Institute acquired the Web of Science Core Collection in XML format (Web of Knowledge version 5). This data can be used by any employee of Indiana University for academic research and without any sharing of data.
IUNI has made the Web of Science dataset available through the Collaborative Archive & Data Research Environment (CADRE) project. To request data access, researchers can complete IUNI's CADRE General Data User Application form, or can access the data as a CADRE user by creating a CADRE account.
Microsoft Academic Graph is an open bibliometric dataset that holds 212 million documents and 1.4 billion citations. The data are available to IU researchers through the IU Network Science Institute and can be accessed as raw tsv data or in a Postgresql database via a dedicated server on the Carbonate system, or through the CADRE web platform. Custom datasets can be requested in standard data formats (.csv, .net).
To request data access, researchers can complete IUNI's CADRE General Data User Application form, or can access the data as a CADRE user by creating a CADRE account.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office data is available to IU researchers through the CADRE platform, giving users access to 3,878,826 records from 2004 to 2019. The data was processed by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center. Code to reproduce results can be found here.
To request data access, please complete the IU Network Science Institute's CADRE General Data User Application form.
The Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe) provides access to Twitter data. OSoMe's Enhanced Access API is free for any IU researcher to use. The API can return any tweets in OSoMe’s collection beginning on August 1st, 2016. The API takes advantage of Twitter’s Enterprise real-time sampling algorithms to collect a statistically valid sample of 10 percent of all public tweets.
Indiana University students and faculty can obtain access to enhanced OSoMe data featuring additional metadata and tweet content. Read more and apply for access through the IU Network Science Institute.
The Observatory on Social Media has been granted access to the CrowdTangle dashboard and associated tools for monitoring Facebook and Instagram. The CrowdTangle dashboard is available to employees of Indiana University via the CrowdTangle web interface. To access this system, users must follow the application process and must handle the data in a manner consistent with CrowdTangle’s Terms of Service. Read the data access policy and apply for access on the IU Network Science Institute's website.
The IU Network Science Institute hosts an archived version of the Human Connectome Project dataset. The archive includes data from 1,200 young-adult subjects (ages 22-35) from families with twins and non-twin siblings, using a protocol that includes structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (dMRI) at 3 Tesla (3T), and behavioral and genetic testing. A subset of about 50 same-sex twin pairs were additionally studied by resting-state/task magnetoencephalography (MEG). Another subset of about 100 same-sex twin pairs were studied using rfMRI, tfMRI, and dMRI at 7 Tesla (7T) at the University of Minnesota.
The archived dataset is on a high-performance file system available to any IU researcher who would like to use it. Request access on IUNI's website.
Gallup Analytics: Gallup Analytics is an online platform that provides subscribers with access to nearly a century of U.S. data and a decade of global tracking data known as the Gallup World Poll. Read more about Gallup Analytics here.
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