Getting started with Power BI desktop
In this recipe you will download and install the Power BI desktop 64 bit edition. Once installed you will be ready to continue with the remaining recipes in the chapter to visualize the Iowa crash data.
How to do it...
- This software is available to download from https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop/.
- Download the 32 or 64 bit version depending upon your environment.
- Double-click the downloaded
PBIDesktop_x64.msi
file and install the software. - Launch the application from the desktop shortcut:
- A blank report will be shown as follows:
How it works...
In this recipe you downloaded Microsoft's Power BI desktop. You then installed and launched the application to ensure it is working.