Power BI Desktop | Calculated columns exercise | Use calculated columns to aggregate building data in new ways

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Software ==> Power BI Desktop  (29 exercises)
Version ==> Latest update
Topic ==> Calculated columns  (2 exercises)
Level ==> Average difficulty
Course ==> Introduction to Power BI Desktop
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Create a new Power BI Desktop file, and load both worksheets from the Excel workbook in the above folder (you can view the original Skyscraper Centre data via a link here).

You'll probably need to click on the Use first row as headers tool in Query Editor for each worksheet.

Create a relationship to show for each building which country it is in:

Relationships diagram

Link the country codes together.

Create a table showing the number of buildings for each country name, and you should get this:

Number of buildings by country

If you include the Country from the Countries table, you'll get this, but there's a blank country at the top of the table.

 

The problem is that our countries table isn't complete.  To get round this, create a new column in the Buildings table which gives:

  • the country name, if it can find a related value in the Countries table; or
  • Other otherwise.

You'll need to use the IF and RELATED functions.

Replace the country column in your table with this new column to get the final answer:

Table of correct data

The Other country appears halfway down the list, and has 4 countries.

 

Save this file as Russia and Vietnam, and close down the instance of Power BI Desktop containing it.

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