diff --git a/spark/compras_top_ten_countries.py b/spark/compras_top_ten_countries.py
index e5b8312..e9c99f4 100644
--- a/spark/compras_top_ten_countries.py
+++ b/spark/compras_top_ten_countries.py
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
+import sys
 from pyspark import SparkContext
-from helpers import item_fields, parse_item
+from helpers import dataUrl, item_fields, parse_item
 
 sc = SparkContext('local', 'compras')
-txt = sc.textFile('data/compras_tiny.csv')
+txt = sc.textFile(dataUrl('compras_tiny.csv'))
 no_header = txt.filter(lambda s: not s.startswith(item_fields[0]))
 parsed = no_header.map(lambda s: parse_item(s)).cache()
 
 countries_rdd = sc \
-    .textFile('./data/country_codes.csv') \
+    .textFile(dataUrl('country_codes.csv')) \
     .map(lambda c: tuple(reversed(c.split(','))))
 
 join_rdd = parsed \
@@ -20,5 +21,5 @@
 print(join_rdd.take(10))
 
 # print map(lambda i: (i[0], i[1][1], i[1][0]), join_rdd.take(10))
-# join_rdd.saveAsTextFile('./top10countries', 'org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec')
+# join_rdd.saveAsTextFile(dataUrl('out/top10countries'), 'org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec')
 
diff --git a/spark/helpers.py b/spark/helpers.py
index 5ca839a..4fbc790 100644
--- a/spark/helpers.py
+++ b/spark/helpers.py
@@ -52,3 +52,8 @@ def isoDate(raw_string):
   except Exception:
     return None
 
+def dataUrl(fileName):
+  base = "./data"
+  # base = "gs://bigdataupv_data"
+  return os.path.join(base, fileName)
+