Lakefront Academy | From Data to Research

November 10, 2026

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How can high-quality financial data be used more effectively for empirical and quantitative research? Wenzhou-Kean University Library and LSEG will co-host an online training session on using LSEG financial databases available through WRDS, with a primary focus on Datastream and SDC. Practical demonstrations will cover data discovery, interpretation, extraction, and research applications.

 

Subscribed Resources 

  • LSEG Datastream

  • Global financial-market and macroeconomic time series, including equities, indices, commodities, futures, foreign exchange, and more than 70 years of macroeconomic history.

  • LSEG SDC

  • Global M&A and capital-markets transaction data, including mergers and acquisitions, equity offerings, and debt issuance, supporting research on corporate finance, IPOs, and financing activity.

  • LSEG I/B/E/S

  • Analyst estimates, consensus forecasts, company guidance, and key performance indicators.

  • Institutional Holdings (13F)

  • U.S. institutional investors’ Form 13F filings and holdings data.

 

Highlights

  • Hands-on Datastream 

  • Learn to locate and extract global financial-market and macroeconomic time series, and understand common data types, definitions, and filters.

  • Hands-on SDC

  • Explore search workflows for M&A, equity offerings, and debt issuance, with demonstrations linked to corporate-finance and capital-markets research.

  • From Data to Research

  • Connect the research question with database selection, data extraction, and downstream processing. 

  • Research and Quantitative Applications 

  • Apply the data to macro-finance, asset pricing, M&A, IPO, financing, and cross-market analysis.

 

 Details 

  • Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2026

  • Time: 2:00-3:00 PM

  • Speaker: Frank Ling, Senior Customer Learning Manager, APAC, LSEG

  • Language: English

  • Teams Meeting ID: 310 920 942 057 041 3

  • Password: Xr6fN2rV

  • Meeting Link: 

    https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3109209420570413?p=iMgut5hHEkRXNbFRen

 

Notes

1. Please join the webinar on a computer 5–10 minutes before it starts.

2. Access the video recording via the Wenzhou-Kean University Library website after the training.

(https://library.wku.edu.cn/en/library-workshop)

 

Lakefront Academy

Lakefront Academy (Shu Hu Xue Tang) is an important platform for academic exchange and practice sharing at the Wenzhou-Kean University Library. It is dedicated to bringing together a wealth of activities such as lectures, seminars, workshops, academic competitions, and professional training, to set up a sparkling stage for the whole community to stimulate and inspire their thoughts.

 

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