Function of appropriate software tools to extract data and to manipualte data when developing visualisations

Question 1

Spreadsheet software

Answer 1

Many data sources provide data in a file format that is compatible with existing spreadsheet applications.

Question 2

Programming languages

Answer 2

Some programming languages have the capabilities to acquire data from external sources. For example. Applications can be created in Python that will fetch data from a website based in the pages HTML code

Question 3

Displaying data (spreadsheet software)

Answer 3

Many spreadsheet applications have a chart or graphing feature that helps manipulate data into a visual form