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Grouping values

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Grouping values

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- [Instructor] I want to take a few minutes to talk about a pivot table pro tip that I actually didn't discover until quite recently, and that's how to use pivots to group numerical values. Now, many people are familiar with grouping text fields or dates in pivot tables, but what most users don't realize is that you can also group numerical fields into custom bins or buckets. Now, to do this, what we're going to do in this demo is we're going to pull a numerical field into our row labels, like this. In this case, we're looking at the price point per bottle of wine. And this feels a little bit wrong because we're always taught to pull those quantitative, those numerical fields, into the values pane of our field list, not into rows or columns. But in this case, that's exactly what we want. And what we're going to do is right-click one of the values in this column and navigate to the group option, just like we would with a date or a text field. But the difference is that this dialog box…

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