A pivot table is a useful tool in data analysis that can give you an overview of your data. We'll show you how to create one in Excel and Google Sheets.

To create a pivot table, navigate to the ‘Insert’ tab in Excel. From here, you can choose to place your pivot table in a new or existing worksheet, depending on your preferences and the layout ...

How to make your first pivot table To start, navigate to Google Sheets and open the spreadsheet you want to work on. This example uses a coin collection because that's more interesting than ...

Essentially a pivot table lets you question the information you have, rather than having to work it all out yourself. Since the ability to quickly sift through figures is paramount for a journalist ...

What is a pivot table, and why should you create one? Before we dive into pivot tables in Excel, letâ s have a quick word about it. A pivot table is a powerful tool in Excel to summarize and ...

Pivot tables in Google Sheets summarize smaller sets of data from a more extensive dataset and can be sorted by rows, columns, values, and filters.