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Possibly my favourite Macbook ever is the trusty mid 2012 edition model. This portable and powerful unit is still very current, supporting Thunderbolt and USB 3, powerful processors, decent battery life, popular 13 inch size and upgradeable to 16Gb of memory, ideal for running Power BI Desktop…. except Power BI Desktop only runs on Windows… 🙁 . But wait, there’s more…

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To download and access PowerPoint on your Mac, follow these steps below. Check out the products mentioned in this article: MacBook Pro (From $1,299.99 at Best Buy). So where is the Mac OS X version? Read on Power BI Desktop runs in several flavours: Power BI Desktop – A Windows download that runs on a Windows desktop – 64 bit recommended. Power BI Cloud – A brilliant zero infrastructure collaboration portal for sharing your concepts with colleagues or external service providers.

Microsoft’s beautiful and bold plan for Power BI is to enable this accessible Data tool within the reach of every Business User on the planet, and that means any device… So where is the Mac OS X version ?

Read on…

Power BI Desktop runs in several flavours :

Power BI Desktop – A Windows download that runs on a Windows desktop – 64 bit recommended.

Power BI Cloud – A brilliant zero infrastructure collaboration portal for sharing your concepts with colleagues or external service providers.

Power BI Mobile – Nifty and Pretty user friendly Mobile apps on IOS, Windows 10 Mobile and Android that allow you to roll out your concepts into live operational systems with Alerting and Notifications for easy and turnkey Management By Exception.

Power BI Embedded – a .Net deployed application that features your Power BI Cloud tiles incorporated into your own Application Seamlessly using Power BI backend APIs.

Power BI SharePoint – via some third party SharePoint apps.

Power BI On-Premise – yes, On-Premise, with a pricey Pyramid Analytics server from the company that collaborated with Microsoft to birth Power BI.

As for Power BI Desktop, we can run on Mac OS X in two ways :

  1. Create a virtual machine in Azure, install Power BI desktop there and access your Power BI cloud workstation via Mac OS X Remote Desktop apps like the sweet Remote Desktop app Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac.
  2. Install Parallels Desktop on your Mac, load up a Windows 10 ISO, install Windows, and load Power BI Desktop on this local virtual machine. Utilise Parallels Desktop to create a seamless Power BI Desktop experience by creating a user friendly shortcut that makes you think you are running Power BI Desktop as a native Mac OS X app.

Parallels has three flavours :

Desktop
  1. Standard edition supporting up to 4 processors and 8gb of RAM
  2. Pro edition capable of more than 4 processors and up to 64Gb of RAM
  3. Business edition – Pro edition with Centralised Management capability

There are some other awesome features, like being able to spin up an Android or IOS virtual machine from a template, which is brilliant for demo-ing and testing Power BI mobile apps before rollout.

You can also install Parallels Access Agent allowing you to Remote Control your Mac over the internet.

But bring on the Mac OS X app please Microsoft 🙂

These are the course notes for the “Introduction to Power BI” course given by the Monash Bioinformatics Platform for the Monash Data Fluency initiative. Our teaching style is based on the style of The Carpentries.

During this workshop we will be using Power BI Desktop installed on your computer. There are several ways to download Power BI Desktop, depending on which system you use.

1. Windows

  • Windows Store

The first option is to visit Windows Store to get the Power BI Desktop app and install it. Note that the system requirements is Windows 10 version 14393.0 or higher.

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If you are using a Monash machine, try searching “Power BI” in “Software Center” and install it. For questions concerning installation on a Monash machine, you may contact eSolutions for help.

  • Power BI website

You can also download Power BI Desktop from the Power BI website and install it as an application on your computer.

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  • Power BI service

Or if you prefer Power BI Service, you can get it by clicking the “Download” button in the upper right and selecting “Power BI Desktop”. To use Power BI service, you may need to sign in your Microsoft account.

After the setup process, you will be able to see the following Start Screen.

Power Bi Install

2. MacOS

Power BI Desktop is not available on Macs. However, you can run a Windows session on your Mac via BootCamp or using a similar application.

3. Linux

Currently it is not possible to install Power BI desktop on Linux. You can choose to install it on a Windows Virtual Machine like VirtualBox or using a similar application.

Download Power Bi Desktop For Mac

After installing Power BI Desktop, you can sign up for Power BI using your Monash account here. By signing in the Power BI Desktop, you will be able to save your work and later publish it to the Power BI service.

Data

Download the data file gap-minder.csv for the course.

Source code

This book was created in R using the rmarkdown and bookdown packages.

Authors and copyright

This course is developed for the Monash Data Fluency Team.

This work is licensed under a CC BY-4: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The attribution is “Monash Bioinformatics Platform” if copying or modifying these notes.

Data files are derived from Gapminder, which has a CC BY-4 license. The attribution is “Free data from www.gapminder.org”. Refer to the Gapminder site for the original form of the data if using it for other uses.