Pivot tables are one of the easiest ways to process and analyze different datasets to gain useful insights and make proper business decisions.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. The 21st century is called the Era of Data and it really does play a huge role nowadays. By analyzing and processing different datasets people can get a lot of useful insights and use them to make the right decisions and understand the nature of many things. And I’m talking not only about some research or studies — every big and small businesses face the power of data and should know how to deal with it. But our minds can’t perceive and remember all these numbers and prefer visual content. So here we come to the point that we need to visualize all this data to work with it efficiently. There are a lot of ways to transform your data in pictures, but I will tell you why you need to implement pivot tables in your work. So let’s start from the basics. A pivot table is a two-dimensional grid used to summarize and present large amounts of data. Its main purpose is to group table records in some categories and perform some operations with all the values in each category. For example: Possible options of pivots’ usage are really wide — from an entrepreneur simply reporting for his small shop to a marketer evaluating company growth or even to a data scientist studying trends in his sphere, the applications are endless. A pivot table is one of the most powerful analytical tools that can help you see all the data together from different points. If you still doubt using pivot tables I will show you some of its features that can immediately improve your work experience.
