For example, if you wanted to find cricket scores. This is everything with either cricket or scores in it. Further details for using Alta Vista are available from Alta Vista's home page. There is a link to Alta Vista and other search programs from the UC home page. Once the data is collected, it must be analysed.
Spreadsheets are a very powerful tool for analysing numerical data.
Custom-written spreadsheets are available to process and analyse data. One advantage of spreadsheets is that they can show numerical information graphically. Humans are much better at absorbing information presented graphically than they are at absorbing text information. To demonstrate, which of the following two overhead transparencies is easier to interpret. Most spreadsheets incorporate powerful statistical tools enabling statistical analysis of data.