Google has introduced pivot tables in Google Sppreadsheets, allowing users to quickly narrow down large data sets to get high level insights.

The feature allows you to “pivot” or rotate data, thus looking at it from different angles and seeing a variety of patterns which may not be immediately obvious.

The new feature was announced at the Google Docs blog by Software Engineer Matt Ziegelbaum, who also notes that “pivot tables from Microsoft Excel can’t be uploaded to Google spreadsheets at this time.”