Pivot tables are like the Swiss army knife of data analysis in Excel. And trust me … They look scary at first, but they’re so easy to use once you learn the underpinning logic that powers them.

You can create pivot tables in Google Sheets manually or automatically and sort your spreadsheet's data by rows, columns, values, and filters.

An obvious story, perhaps, but one that demonstrates the ease and versatility of using a pivot table to sort your data. You can also use the data to create charts that will update themselves when you ...

Excel's GROUPBY function lets you group and aggregate data based on certain fields in your table of data. It also offers arguments that allow you to sort and filter your data, so you can tailor the ...

Pivot tables may be powerful, but they are a real pain to sort and analyze like we did at the beginning. In fact, trying to sort can cause your pivot table to get a little funky.

VIDEO: Pivot tables are easy to create and invaluable if you have a lot of data to sort through.