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Software ==>	Power BI (160 exercises)
Topic ==>	Filtering data (15 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	Power BI training

Import skyscraper data, creating a new column and showing this in a chart controlled by a slicer

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file .

Create a new Power BI Desktop file, and import tables from the Wikipedia list of skyscrapers (you can find the link you need at this page).

At the time of writing, this is the table you need to import.

If you haven't got Internet access or the data above has changed, you can instead load the CSV file from the above folder.

Using Query Editor, tidy up the data to look something like this:

The list of buildings after tidying up. You'll need to do a fair amount of column renaming and data type changing, among other things!

Now go back to Query Editor and add a custom column called Floor Height which divides the height in metres of each building by the number of floors. Use this to create the following table: