Quandl

Quandl, Inc.
Type Private
Headquarters Toronto, Canada
Area served Worldwide
Founder(s) Tammer Kamel, Abraham Thomas
Key people Tammer Kamel (CEO)
Abraham Thomas (CDO)
Industry Internet
Products Quandl Data Marketplace
Services Data subscriptions
Employees 16
Website quandl.com
Written in Ruby and Java
Type of site E-commerce
Available in English
Launched January 1, 2013

Quandl (/ˈkwɑːndəl/) is a search engine for numerical data.[1] The site offers access to several million financial, economic and social datasets. Quandl indexes data from multiple sources allowing users to find and download in various formats. All Quandl's data are accessible via an API.[2] API access is possible through packages for multiple programming languages including R, Python, Matlab and Stata.[3][4]

An Excel add-in allows access to data, including stock price information.

Quandl's sources include the UN, Worldbank, Eurostat and several hundred more.[5][6]

References

  1. Gray, Wesley (4 April 2013). "Quandl: Democratizing Data". http://turnkeyanalyst.com/. External link in |work= (help)
  2. "Quandl Package - 5,000,000 free datasets at the tip of your fingers!". http://www.econometricsbysimulation.com/. 5 May 2013. External link in |work= (help)
  3. Machlis, Sharon (8 March 2013). "Quandl: Wikipedia for data". http://computerworld.com/. External link in |work= (help)
  4. "Packages".
  5. Harris, Derrick (31 May 2013). "It’s a beautiful thing when free data meets free analytics". http://gigaom.com. External link in |work= (help)
  6. "Quandl Data Sources".
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