And you could see we got Rank, Title, Director, Rating, Genre, and Runtime. Okay, so there are the top 10 films in that list by rating. Okay so here’s a breakdown of films by runtime. Okay, the next question is: What’s a breakdown about these films by genre? Can we get a list? And, using the drill-down feature in pivot tables we can do just that.
This data consists of Temperature readings taken in a greenhouse over a period of days. We have Date, Time, temperature in Celsius, and temperature in Fahrenheit. So, first, how many readings do we have? you’re able to see that we have over 9000 readings total. How many reading per day is this? If I add Date as a row label, we get a breakdown by day. And you’re able to see that on most days, we have 720 readings....
In the data, we have the fields: Name, Date, Amount, and Region. To start off, let’s look at total sales by region. This would be easy to graph in a Pivot Chart as well. Next, what are total sales by month and year? To answer this, we’ll need to group by Date. How about total sales by salesperson in 2014? The easiest way to build this report is to set Year as a Report filter....
In the data, we have the fields: Name, Gender, Age, and Vote. By counting Name, you’ve got the option to see that we have 300 votes total. Next, what was the winning vote? The winning vote is Option B, with 156 votes. What’s the breakdown by Percentage? We could easily graph this with a pivot chart. What’s the breakdown by Gender? By adding Gender as a column label, we can easily get the full breakdown....
To create a pivot table with a filter for day of week (i.e. filter on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, etc.) In the example shown, the pivot table is configured to show data for Mondays only. The filter is set to include Mondays only. Steps Notes
Pivot tables have a built-in feature to group numbers into buckets at a given interval. This numeric grouping is fully automatic. Fields The source data contains three fields: Name, Age, and Group. The “by” is set to 10 years, but can be customized as needed. The pivot table maintains age grouping when fields are added or reconfigured.
Pivot tables have a built-in feature to allow manual grouping. Notice these groupsdo not appearanywhere in the source data. Fields The source data contains three fields:Date,Sales, andColor. The control key must be held down to allow non-contiguous selections. The final two groups are named “Original” and “New”. Excel will name the grouping field “Color2”.
To group a pivot table by day of week (e.g. Mon, Tue, Wed, etc.) In the example shown, the pivot table is configured to display sales by weekday. Note that Excel automatically sorts standard weekday names in a natural order, instead of alphabetically. When theSalesfield is first added as a Value field, it is automatically named “Sum of Sales”.
Pivot tables have a built-in feature to group dates by year, month, and quarter. In the example shown, a pivot table is used to summarize sales by year and quarter.
Pivot tables have a feature to group dates by year, month, and quarter. In the example shown, a pivot table is used to summarize support issues by month and by priority. The Total columns shows the total count of issues recorded in each month. Fields The source data contains three fields:Issue,Date, andPriority. The Issue field has been added as a Value field and renamed “Count” for clarity. Steps Notes
To create a pivot table that shows the last 12 months of data (i.e. Filter is a helper column with a formula flagging the last 12 months. The formula uses the AND, TODAY, and EOMONTH functionsas explained here.
To create a pivot table that shows the last 4 weeks of data (i.e. Filter is a helper column with a formula flagging the last 4 weeks. Week is a helper column that returns the Monday for any given date (for convenience only). It returns TRUE when a date is in the last 4 complete weeks, and FALSE if not. See the link for a full explanation. For example, to display the last 6 weeks (42 days), use:...
To create a pivot table that shows the last 7 days of data (or, more generally, the lastndays) you’re free to add ahelper columnto the source data with a formula to flag records in the last 7 days, then use the helper column to filter the data in the pivot table. In the example shown, the current date is August 16, 2019, and the pivot table shows the seven days previous....
