What is Data Acquisition step in Data Analytics process step

Data Acquisition step in Data Analytics process step

Data Acquisition step is used to collect data from various sources for analysis to answer the question raised in Business Definition Step.

Data Acquisition step involves

• File Handling
• Web Scraping
• SQL Data 

Some examples of Data Acquisition steps are :

• Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media and information sites provide streaming APIs. 
• Server logs can be extracted from enterprise system servers to analyze and optimize application performance.