Okay, let's talk about what you need to be able to follow through our examples. So to start off, we need Power BI Desktop installed on your computer. Okay, so I'll be sharing the link as well on the downloads on where you can download this for free. Okay, so once we go to this page, just go straight to Power BI Desktop over here, there's a download button and then what I normally do is I just go for the advanced download options. So let's click on it because it's easier for me to install fire here, okay. So once we have here English, okay, for the language go to download, just select the corresponding like 32 bit or 64 bit version for you.
Okay, in my case, it was 64 bit, I just click next and it will get downloaded. So I'll just go straight here because I already have it ready. Okay, and over here, you just double click on the installer, and just continue clicking Next on the steps. It's pretty straightforward to install. Okay, and soon enough, you have Power BI Desktop installed on your computer. Another thing that I wanted to share is you can also create a Power BI account.
And that's pretty free actually. So once you go to this link, okay, so let me just scroll down here. Okay, so sign up and get started today, over here. So the reason why we are getting an account in Power BI online, right? Once we want to publish our reports in the Power BI website, it will require from you a Power BI account, okay? So this is actually a good thing for you to have so that you can follow the entire example from start to finish.
But if you don't have an account, don't worry as long as you have Power BI Desktop installed, then you can work through examples until you create the report or the Power View visualization. But you won't be able to publish it to the website so that you can try out creating your dashboard or share your work with others. Okay, so I would recommend this well creating an account in here. It's pretty straightforward to do. The only catch though is it has to be a work email address. Okay?
So for personal emails like Gmail or yahoo email accounts, it won't accept it. So it has to have a company domain for your email, right? So for example over here, I'll just type it in here. Okay, Brian, hot mic sell online at the calm. I'll just use it free. Okay, so once we have this page, you just fill out the first name, last name, password, and then whatever verification code gets sent to your email address, okay?
So just go start and you're good to go. Okay, so you'll have your free Power BI account ready for you.