--- title: "Pivot vs Unpivot in Power Query (Visually Explained) | #Power BI Course 13" url: https://daily.dev/posts/pivot-vs-unpivot-in-power-query-visually-explained-power-bi-course-13-hhdbfjt8m source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWan9LY0mYQ type: video:youtube source: "Data with Baraa" published: 2026-05-31T07:43:04.613Z updated: 2026-05-31T07:54:29.345Z tags: ["data-analysis", "power-bi"] reading_time: 12 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pivot vs Unpivot in Power Query (Visually Explained) | #Power BI Course 13 **[Data with Baraa](https://daily.dev/sources/datawithbaraa)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A beginner-friendly tutorial explaining pivot and unpivot operations in Power Query for Power BI. Covers why data needs reshaping (human-readable wide format vs. analysis-ready long format), when to use each method, and walks through a practical example: unpivoting monthly sales/cost columns into rows, splitting combined attribute columns, then selectively re-pivoting measure types back into dedicated columns for easier aggregation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#data-analysis](https://daily.dev/tags/data-analysis), [#power-bi](https://daily.dev/tags/power-bi) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pivot-vs-unpivot-in-power-query-visually-explained-power-bi-course-13-hhdbfjt8m)