Quantopian support & members,
I would like to incorporate external data into an algorithm via a copy-and-paste. As a specific example, as Simon points out in https://www.quantopian.com/posts/empiritages-volatility-based-asset-allocation, he'd prefer to use the actual VIX index data rather than VXX. I figure that it should be straightforward to download the data, format it appropriately with a spreadsheet or text editor (or a Python script), and then copy-and-paste it into the Quantopian algorithm editor.
My first inclination is to keep things simple, and just paste the external data into a numpy array, but perhaps a more sophisticated data structure would be better (e.g. dict, Pandas DataFrame, etc.).
Any advice?
Grant
