The -g 3 flag groups rows by the values in column 3 before applying the statistic, a group-by operation. Here each unique value in column 3 (say a department name) gets its own mean of column 4 (say salary). Output rows appear in first-seen order unless you add -s to sort the groups. This is the datamash equivalent of a SQL GROUP BY with AVG.
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