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 Creates a matrix table using values in one column as column labels, and values in another column as the matrix column's values. This transformation is opposite to [[transformations:unpivot|Unpivot]].
+**Example: Winter Olympics medals**
+^  Country  ^  Season  ^  Medals  ^
+| Canada  |  winter 2010  |  26  |
+| United States  |  winter 2010  |  37  |
+| Norway  |  winter 2010  |  23  |
+| Germany  |  winter 2010  |  30  |
+| Canada  |  winter 2014  |  25  |
+| United States  |  winter 2014  |  28  |
+| Norway  |  winter 2014  |  26  |
+| Germany  |  winter 2014  |  19  |
+Pivot on columns [Season] and [Medals]. Aggregation - Any. Result:
+^  Country  ^  winter 2010  ^  winter 2014  ^
+| Canada  |  26  |  25  |
+| United States  |  37  |  28  |
+| Norway  |  23  |  26  |
+| Germany  |  30  |  19  |
+Note that grouping works implicitly in the "Pivot" action. Groups are formed by combination of values in other columns that not labels or data. Values in a group are aggregated into 1 row. For instance in the example above, column [Country] was used for implicit grouping, because two other columns, [Season] and [Medals], were used for labels and data respectively.
+If a pivoted dataset has only two columns, one of which is used for data, and the other for labels), then the resulting dataset will always have only 1 row.
 **See also**
   * [[transformations:unpivot|Unpivot]]