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.

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.

Now select the 'Insert' tab and then 'Pivot Table'. It is best to insert the table into a new document. On other programs like OpenOffice data or in a Google spreadsheet, you might have to click the ...