Reference · Visual workspace
Unpivot wide data to long in Visual workspace
Turn several columns into key/value rows, without inventing rows for missing values.
When to use it
Survey or spreadsheet exports with one column per question or period.
How
Add step → Reshape → Unpivot. Tick the columns to keep and the columns to turn into rows, and name the new key and value columns. Then filter out rows with a missing value if absent answers shouldn't be rows.
Unpivot 3 columns into question/score
- The unpivoted columns must share one type; convert them first.
Pitfalls
- Scoring missing answers as 0.
- Mixing types in the unpivoted columns.
Lesson: Unpivot without inventing scores
Practise it: Unpivot survey answers without inventing scores