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Set up your environment

Set up your environment - Power BI Tutorial

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Set up your environment

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- [Instructor] Okay, so let's just take a few minutes to talk about setup instructions. Should you choose to follow along with the videos? So you could sit back and just watch the videos and absorb them and not actually put your hands on the keyboard doing the work. But if you want to take it slow and do the work, all the files we're going to talk about are in a GitHub repository, which we'll talk with here in a minute. And you can go ahead and follow along and build all this on your own. And I would encourage that because that is a better way to kind of cement the learnings as we go through this entire class. So with that, you'll need the latest Power BI desktop. You'll need access to a Power BI Free or Pro account in the actual Power BI service. So you need a few basic things. And as I mentioned just a moment ago, the sample files and instructions are located on GitHub. So you can go to the URL, which we have on the screen there, and it'll take you over to the following GitHub…

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