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Can quantopian.research be used offline?

Hello,

Naive question from a brand new user. I use Jupyter Notebooks for purposes other than financial, so I have an Anaconda setup locally. Is it possible to use quantopian.research in a regular Jupyter notebook or can I only use it online on the Quantopian site. I did try to copy paste code from the basic tut directly in a Jupyter notebook and it does not work, so presumably I cannot import from quantopian.research locally, but I may be wrong.

Thank you for confirming (or not).

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The issue one will have in a local notebook is how to get data. The get_pricing and associated methods won't work locally. Likewise, pipeline methods won't work either. Generally speaking, online notebooks function exactly like local notebooks with the added feature of being able to query Quantopian supplied data.

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Got it. Thanks a lot Dan.