In this chapter, we will take a look at a subset of the fast-growing and wide-ranging set of data sources available over the Internet that you can use as a source of analytical data for Excel. While the data sources that you will see in the following pages may be extremely diverse, they all have one thing in common: they are stored outside the enterprise and are available using an Internet connection.
Looking at all the available sources in detail would take up an entire book, so I will only show you how to access some of the mainstream services that are ...