Using external Python packages along side the Quantopian API?

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Using external Python packages along side the Quantopian API?

posted Feb 7, 2015

Is this possible? If so, I'll be so excited I won't be able to keep my pants on.

4 responses

Scott Sanderson

Hi Jesse,

By "external packages", do you mean packages of your own creation, or specific packages that are already in existence? We currently support large chunks of the standard library and the SciPy stack (numpy, scipy, pandas, etc.), which can be imported in the backtester just the way you would in any other python module. If there's a package that we don't currently support (or a function in a supported package that's not currently whitlisted) that you think would be a useful addition to the platform, you can suggest it here or in the feedback widget (accessible from the Help dropdown on the top right of your screen), and we'll evaluate it for inclusion.

We don't currently have support for private user-supplied modules, though that's one of our most-requested features.

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Andreas Doepfert

Over a year passed by and I guess it is still 'one of our most-requested features'. Any improvement? Does it work now?

Is it possible to use keras or tensorflow on quantopian?

No. However, a new API was recently released:

https://www.quantopian.com/posts/upload-your-custom-datasets-and-signals-with-self-serve-data

So, if you can do computations off-line, the results can be uploaded, and applied to contest and fund algos.

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