Pivot/unPivot

Group a flat dataset into pivot table and unpivot it back

Description

These two functions are meant to format a flat dataset into a pivot table and to unpivot it back.
They imitate the T_SQL pivot/unpivot commands or the pivoting functionalities of the spreadsheet softwares.

If you a have a large set of values which are described by two features (or more) this function allows you to group those values by those two features.

For example, you can sum to the total amount sold over the last 10 months by any of your employees or you can count the number of contracts signed by region and by salesmen and so on...

For detailed help and description see the published M-file or the help of the functions.

For examples see the attached snapshot.
   
Comments/suggestions/error reports are welcome.

Thanks to Jos (10584) for cell2float.

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Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
CELL2FLOAT

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.9 (2009b)
• Other requirements: Tested on R14SP3 (7.1) and on R2009b. In-between compatibility is assumed. Cell2float is implemented as a really compact subfunction.

[Oleg Komarov]

Previous releases compatibility is not achieved at the moment. I'll update the submission asap.

[Santosh]

 

[Vandhana Gopalakrishnan]

 

[Christian Weber]