What makes a pivot table a “pivot table” and how is it different from a regular graph or chart?

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What makes a pivot table a “pivot table” and how is it different from a regular graph or chart?

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In your initial table, you can have rows that represent individual data points. Each column contains a feature of that data point.

What a pivot table allows you to do is to pivot dimensions. What was organized as columns can become organized along rows and vice versa.