And Vidas has just noticed there’s a new release of PowerPivot that integrates with Windows Azure Marketplace – Microsoft’s data marketplace that was previously known as Project Dallas.
There’s also a separate Excel addin that allows you to import data from Windows Azure Marketplace direct into Excel:
https://datamarket.azure.com/addin
One last thing to note – among all the cool data that’s available at the Windows Azure Marketplace, I see that you can get access to data from Wolfram Alpha too!
Nice stuff indeed… Too bad most of the datasets are “coming soon” but I guess that will get rectified shortly…
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