Summary of Summarize Data Week
April 14, 2018 - by Bill Jelen

For the last five days, I showed five different ways to create a customer summary from a detailed data set. Now it is time to vote for your favorite.
The goal is to summarize a 563-row data set so you have one row per customer.
This week featured five different ways to solve the problem.
- Monday: Summarize Data with Subtotals
- Tuesday: Summarize Data with Remove Duplicates
- Wednesday: Summarize Data with Advanced Filter
- Thursday: Summarize Data with Consolidate
- Friday: Summarize Data with Pivot Tables
- Today: Summary of Summarize Data Week
There are likely other methods that I missed. Power Query. Microsoft Query.
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Here is the summary of how long each method took, both in clicks+keystrokes and elapsed time.

But speed is not the whole story. Depending on if your underlying data is going to change, you might prefer a method that is easier to refresh.
I would like you to vote for the method that is your favorite. Vote here.
The results will be posted here in a few days.
This week is Summarizing Data week. Each day, we will look at five different ways to solve a problem.
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