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Counting nonnumerical fields

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Counting nonnumerical fields

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- [Instructor] Alright, for this pro-tip I want to share with you how we can use pivot tables to count non-numerical or text-based fields. So when you're working with a pivot that values pane in your field list, is almost always used for quantitative, numerical fields, your numbers. These are your fields you can add, multiply, subtract, and summarize in different sorts of ways. But here's the thing, it can also be used to analyze the count or the frequency non-numerical fields, of text-based fields. And because you can't really aggregate or summarize texts, based on a sum or an average or a max. What we're going to do is use the of summarization which is the default, to display frequencies for each of those text-based values. So let me show you an example of what I mean by that. We're going to be looking at our IMDB movie database here, and the idea is to understand the distribution of our data, of our titles, based on other fields like genre for instance. If we pull genre into both…

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