Awesome Public Datasets – Finance / Google Trends (Finance)

Category: Themed Directories
Tags: datasets, finance, analytics
Source: Google Trends – Finance-related search interest
Collection: awesomedata / Awesome Public Datasets

Overview

This entry in the Awesome Public Datasets catalog links to Google Trends as a public data source for analyzing finance-related search interest and trends. It provides access to Google’s aggregated, anonymized search volume indices, which can be used to study public interest over time in financial topics, instruments, and markets.

Features

• Public search-trend data

  • Access to aggregated Google search interest over time.
  • Relative search volume indices rather than raw counts.
  • Global and regional trend data (geo filters such as countries/regions where available in Google Trends).

• Finance-focused use cases

  • Analyze interest in financial assets (e.g., stocks, indices, commodities, cryptocurrencies) via their names or tickers (where recognized as search terms).
  • Track public attention around macroeconomic terms (e.g., “inflation”, “interest rates”, “recession”).
  • Study seasonality and spikes in finance-related queries (e.g., around earnings seasons, policy announcements, or crises).

• Time-based analysis

  • Historical trend visualizations across customizable date ranges (e.g., entire history, last 5 years, custom intervals), subject to what Google Trends supports.
  • Identification of peaks and troughs in search interest over time.

• Geographic and topical segmentation

  • Filter and compare search interest across different geographies (worldwide vs. specific regions or countries, as supported by Google Trends).
  • Explore related queries and topics surfaced by Google Trends to expand or refine financial research terms.

• Comparative analytics

  • Compare multiple search terms side-by-side (e.g., compare interest in different stocks, asset classes, or economic topics).
  • Use relative indexing to benchmark terms against each other.

• Visualization and exploration tools (inherent to Google Trends interface)

  • Built-in charts for visualizing search interest over time.
  • Regional heatmaps indicating where certain financial topics are most searched.
  • Interface sections that cover basics, understanding the data, and more advanced usage (as indicated by training imagery such as “data”, “basics”, “understanding”, “advanced”).

• Integration into research workflows

  • Suitable as a complementary indicator in quantitative or qualitative financial research.
  • Can be used to generate hypotheses about market sentiment or public awareness around financial events.

Pricing

• Not specified in the provided content. Google Trends is typically available as a free-to-use web tool, though the dataset is accessed via the Google Trends interface rather than as a bulk-download product in this listing.