got into it in my job i realized that there were so many things that were in that course that i really needed to know but i didn’t realize i needed to know it and so i’m going to put the links to those courses in the description in case you want to take those again huge shout out to udemy without further ado let’s jump on my screen and get started with our very first excel tutorial all right What are Pivot Tables so i’m going to go ahead and get rid of myself we are going to be looking at something absolutely pivotal in your data analytics career and that is a pivot tables and i think that’s really appropriate it is probably one of the most commonly used things i think that data analysts use to convey information in excel it’s super easy to group things together to display information in a very easily understandable way especially for people who are not data analysts right i use this a lot for other managers or for higher ups who don’t want to get into sql or you know aren’t super tech savvy in like python or tableau they just want it in excel and so i use it all the time for that reason and so we’re going to be using this data set right here bike store sales in