Microsoft is working on another tool called Data Explorer. According to the this page, the tool is supposed to assist in finding data as well as combining data from different and potentially incompatible sources. It comes in both desktop and cloud versions.
I have been playing with the desktop version a little bit and I can definitely see how it can help with data acquisition and combining. Still trying to figure out how to put that data to use with some good data visualizations..
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