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Getting data in Quantopian Research Notebook using Quandl

Hey

I'm trying to find an example how to get the VIX prices on the Quantopian Notebook Research. Have any of you done this before?

Regards,
EG

4 responses

Hi Erick,
The best way to get the VIX prices from Quandl into the research notebook at this point is to download the csv, add it to your data folder on research (it's a drag and drop) and the use the local_csv function to pull the data in.

An example of local_csv in action is here. Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Im trying to do something similar but the data is from a different source. My problem is that i cannot upload a file that huge to the local data folder. The csv file is around 45mb and my browser crashes when i try to upload it (after 30s or something).
I`ve tried with smaller files and they upload without any issues.

Is this a known bug? Im not surprised if there is a limitation but it would be better to get an error instead of a crashed browser tab.

Is there a way to load external csv`s when working in the notebook?

-Sindre

Hi Sindre, the max size is 34MB for a file in research. Perhaps you could break up your master file into smaller parts, and upload those?

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Hi Alisa,

Thanks for the info. I ended up breaking the file into smaller parts like you suggested.

-Sindre