Module:  Data Pivoting (Conditioning)                                                                          Print

Lesson Objective Learn how to pivot data to reformat from a tall/skinny to a short/wide organization, aggregate replicate measures, and other data conditioning methods
Section Description
Data Pivoting A discussion of the utility of data pivoting and aggregation.
Tall/Skinny => Short/Wide A definition and example of what it means to "pivot data."
Pivoting the Current DecisionSite Data Set How to pivot data, including details for the following pivot terms:  Identity, Category, Values, and Other columns.
Other Data Pivoting Options How to access other data conditioning options.
Tall/Skinny => Short/Wide (Alt 1) vs. (Alt 2) A discussion of the difference between Tall/Skinny => Short/Wide (Alt 1) and (Alt 2). 
Table Rotation Without Aggregation How to achieve table reformatting without aggregation, and consideration of the resulting data column titles.
Using More than One Column to Define an Identity An example which requires two values for unique identity.
Using More than One Column to Define a Category An example which requires two values for unique category.
Concatenation of Non-unique String Values The result of pivoting multiple text values is a comma-separated string.
Case Normalizer A discussion of the Case Normalizer data conditioning tool and how it serves to treat string values the same, independent of case.
New Column from Expression A discussion of how the New Column from Expression data conditioning tool allows you to perform calculations upon import.