Government Data Market researchers often need data and tools not provided by their employers. Fortunately, it is possible to obtain both data and tools relatively inexpensively. In the past, this required trips to various libraries. Today, the Internet has dramatically shortened the time involved.
Internet research is speedier but acquiring, processing and analyzing data is still labor intensive.
We can clean data faster, process and analyze larger samples, and create wonderful looking charts and graphics with animation effects. But, we still have to go through all of the basic steps. There are a lot of data available on the Internet that can add value to our projects. Much of it is free. None of it is instant.