MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

MACHINE LEARNING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is a pivot table?
A
A table that helps you analyze data by aggregating the individual items of a more extensive data collection within one or more discrete categories.
B
A table that inverts the columns and rows so they switch places
C
A table that color-codes the information that you are interested about
D
A table that applies an offset function in order to map values onto a new data set.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A pivot table is a statistics tool that summarizes and reorganizes selected columns and rows of data in a spreadsheet or database table to obtain a desired report. The tool does not actually change the spreadsheet or database itself, it simply “pivots” or turns the data to view it from different perspectives.

Detailed explanation-2: -A PivotTable is an interactive way to quickly summarize large amounts of data. You can use a PivotTable to analyze numerical data in detail, and answer unanticipated questions about your data.

Detailed explanation-3: -A table which horizontally-organised data points. A table used to compute financial pivot values.

Detailed explanation-4: -It involves summarizing the data, obtaining the needed values and presenting the results. Excel provides PivotTable to enable you summarize thousands of data values easily and quickly so as to obtain the required results.

Detailed explanation-5: -An Excel Pivot Table is a potent tool that we can use to slice and dice the data. You can track and analyze the hundreds and thousands of data points with a small table that can be changed dynamically to enable us to find the different perspectives of the data.

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