A few weeks ago, I blogged about Quandl, a search engine for datasets. Well, they have just released an Excel add in that allows a person to pull a dataset from Quandl straight into an Excel spreadsheet. It is very new, so Quandl would appreciate your comments and any bugs you may find.
Quandl Excel Add In
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I guess this feature is useful only far as Excel’s limitations goes.
Ha, true. However, quite a bit can be done with Excel. It is clearly the best Microsoft Office product.
Nice. Thanks for the info. Have you tried the St. Louis Federal reserve Excel add-on?
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred-addin/?utm_source=research&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=data-tools
No, I have not. What types of data does the federal reserve release?
Thanks for commenting,
Ryan
FRED is an aggregator for about 60,000 datasets from about 50 different sources. It’s all time-series economic data: growth, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, exchange rates and so on. More here: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/.
Incidentally, Quandl already includes all 60,000+ datasets from FRED in its index, plus another ~3 million datasets from another ~250 sources. So it’s a kind of Super-FRED, so to speak 🙂
Thanks for the kind words about Quandl, Ryan!
best,
Abraham
(on the Quandl team)
THanks for the update
Quandl Excel Add-in does not work in Mac, any know how when that would be available?
I am not sure, but I will try to reach out to Quandl.
Thanks,
Ryan
SK, Ryan: we’re working on it!
I’m looking to move Quandl data to Excel and from there to NinjaTrader. Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated.
I am not sure I am much help there. Maybe you should try to reach out to the Quandl team and speak with them. They have an email link on the about page. http://www.quandl.com/about Good Luck!