Ad Targeting Transparency
| Authors | Meta |
| Sample Period | Aug 2020 - present |
| Description | Includes granular, ad-level targeting information for all social issue, electoral and political ads run across Meta's technologies since August 2020 in 120+ countries. The dataset is updated monthly and includes ad targeting criteria, such as age, gender, location, Custom Audience and Lookalike Audience inclusion or exclusion, and other detailed targeting selections (demographics, behaviors, or interests). |
| URL | https://fort.fb.com/researcher-datasets |
| See More | https://research.facebook.com/blog/2021/02/introducing-new-election-related-ad-data-sets-for-researchers/ |
Facebook Civic Engagement
| Authors | Meta |
| Sample Period | Feb 2020 - Dec 2020 |
| Description | Enables the study of Facebookâs civic engagement products and how users interacted with them. The Civic Engagement Data Set includes aggregated demographic statistics of user engagement (Likes, Comments and other actions associated with content) with civic and voting features (Voter Turnout Reminder tool, Share That You Voted tool and Voter Registration tool) on Facebook starting on February 11, 2020 and up to and including December 31, 2020. Researchers who complete the application process for the URL Shares data set (above) will gain access to civic engagement data. |
| URL | https://fort.fb.com/researcher-datasets |
Facebook Social Connectedness
| Authors | Bailey, Cao, Kuchler, Stroebel, Wong |
| Description | The social connectedness index measures the strength of connectedness between two geographic areas as represented by Facebook friendship ties. SCI can reveal important insights about economics, social mobility, and health. |
| URL | https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/tools/social-connectedness-index |
| See More | https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.32.3.259 |
Facebook URL Shares
| Authors | Meta |
| Sample Period | Jan 2017 - Dec 2019 |
| Description | Includes differentially private individual-level counts of the number of people who viewed, clicked, liked, commented, shared, or reacted to any URL (for any URL with at least 100 public shares) on Facebook between January 2017 and December 2019. The URL Shares data set is regularly updated to include additional months and countries. Access is granted via an RFP application, which is managed by our partner Social Science One at Harvard University. |
| URL | https://fort.fb.com/researcher-datasets |
| See More | https://socialscience.one/blog/unprecedented-facebook-urls-dataset-now-available-research-through-social-science-one |
Partisan Investor Beliefs
| Authors | Cookson, Engelberg, Mullins |
| Sample Period | Jan 2017 - Jun 2020 |
| Description | The dataset contains the daily sentiment time series of Republican investors versus others |
| URL | https://www.tonycookson.com/data-and-programs |
| See More | https://academic.oup.com/raps/article/10/4/863/5912941?login=false |
StockTwits Disagreement
| Authors | Cookson, Niessner |
| Sample Period | Jan 2010 - Dec 2021 |
| Description | The dataset contains for each PERMNO/Day, the number of StockTwits messages, the level of disagreement across all StockTwits investors, across investors with the same investment approach and among investors with different investment approaches |
| URL | https://marinaniessner.com/data.html |
| See More | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jofi.12852; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4529594 |
StockTwits Echo Chamber Measures
| Authors | Cookson, Engelberg, Mullins |
| Sample Period | Jan 2013 - Jun 2020 |
| Description | The dataset contains stock identifiers (PERMNO from CRSP and symbolid from StockTwits), as well as stock-day "Echo Chamber measures" based on StockTwits data (sender disagreement, received disagreement, and received uncertainty). |
| URL | https://www.tonycookson.com/data-and-programs |
| See More | https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article-abstract/36/2/450/6670640?redirectedFrom=fulltext |
Tweets on Stocks
| Authors | Chen, Hwang |
| Sample Period | Jan 2013 - Dec 2018 |
| Description | The dataset contains for each PERMNO-Ticker/Day, the total number of tweets and the total number of retweets regarding the corresponding stock. |
| URL | https://www.dropbox.com/s/bdvl41gq30lxspb/Twitter%20data%20%28Aug%202021%29.zip?dl=0 |
| See More | http://www.bhwang.com/pdf/investor-conversations.pdf |