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title: "What I'm Learning: Creating Pivot Tables in Google Sheets"
date: 2014-03-30
url: https://learningischange.com/2014/03/30/what-im-learning-creating-pivot-tables-in-google-sheets/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Blog", "What I’m Learning", "What I’m Using"]
tags: []
---

# What I'm Learning: Creating Pivot Tables in Google Sheets

This is a really great presentation and video that finally got me to understand the ways in which you would create and use pivot tables. Thanks, [Alice Keeler.](https://twitter.com/alicekeeler)

[How to Create a Pivot Table to Summarize Student Information | Teacher Tech](http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2013/05/14/how-to-create-a-pivot-table-to-summarize-student-information/)

> Pivot tables are an incredibly powerful tool for summarizing information. When looking at data oftentimes there are repeats in the information. Multiple times a students name is listed. Multiple times an assignment title is listed. Multiple times a disciplinary action was taken. To make sense of a spreadsheet with many rows of information a pivot table can make sense of the chaos.