Learn how to create a pivot table in Google Sheets. A pivot table is a statistical tool that allows you to summarize or aggregate data sets.

If you use Google Sheets regularly and want to refer to an abbreviated version of your data, then look no further than the pivot table. Here's how to use it.

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.

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.

[ Google Sheets cheat sheet: How to get started ] Why use pivot tables? The best way to explain what a pivot table does, and why you would want to create one, is to show examples.

For starters, instead of manually creating a pivot table to bring order to your data set, Google Sheets can suggest a pivot table based on the data you have in Google Sheets for you automatically.

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