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.

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

We’ve previously covered a few basics for pivot tables, a powerful Excel tool which helps digital marketers organize and understand data. Today we’re going a half-step beyond the basics of setting up ...