Here is the bad address: http://wesmckinney.com/files/tips.csv Found here in the docs: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/blob/master/doc/source/visualization.rst#trellis-plotting-interface Alternative link found elsewhere in the code base: https://raw.github.com/pydata/pandas/master/pandas/tests/data/tips.csv PR for a fix follows