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People Data Labs Provides Company Insights Data to Academics

August 28, 2023
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Dewey

Dewey’s newest partner is People Data Labs, a leading provider of global company profile and individual work history datasets. We are thrilled to unlock this exciting new source of workforce intelligence data to power research into worldwide human capital and strategic business trends. Read on to learn more and get started.

What is People Data Labs?

People Data Labs provides B2B datasets that enable thousands of engineering, data science, product, and other technical teams to build compliant, innovative, software solutions. Founded in 2015, People Data Labs started as a recruiting software company to help companies source candidates. Today, PDL provides robust personal and company profile data that organizations across all industries can use to derive insights and solutions.

PDL’s core focus is on building the best data available through the integration of thousands of compliantly-sourced datasets into a single, developer-friendly source of truth. More than 3 billion individual and company profiles are leveraged by global companies to enrich recruiting platforms, power AI models, create custom audiences, and more. Now the data that powers PDL’s platform is unlocked for academics through this new partnership with Dewey. 

“People Data Labs has historically focused on people-data, but we’ve been hard at work developing an exciting new company insights dataset that we are thrilled to offer for the academic community,” said Ben Eisenberg, PDL’s VP of Innovation. “We can’t wait to see the innovative research academics produce with this workforce intelligence data and receive product feedback at the same time.”

What type of data does People Data Labs provide?

The following datasets from People Data Labs are now available through the Dewey platform:

Company Insights: Included in all Dewey subscriptions, Company Insights data provides business information on organizations around the world, from 2010 to present. Some of the attributes include:

  • employee counts
  • employee tenures
  • top company metro areas
  • employee growth and churn
  • executive leadership changes


People Data: Available for purchase, People Data provides insights on individuals from over 650M global resumes and profiles going back 50 years, including:

  • work history
  • salary insights
  • educational background and performance
  • social media handles
  • associated addresses

You can learn more about each of these datasets on People Data Labs’ docs site.

How can I access People Data Labs datasets for academic research?

Anyone with a Dewey account can access a free sample of People Data Labs’ Company Insights Data. Dewey subscribers can access the entire dataset for no additional cost. People Data can be purchased on an individual basis.

Not registered with Dewey yet? Check out our different account tiers and get started.

Questions About People Data Labs

Visit the Dewey community to get your questions answered about People Data Labs or any other datasets on the Dewey platform. You can view and search for discussion threads about People Data Labs by using the tag people-data-labs.