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Power BI Desktop and service

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Power BI Desktop and service

- [Instructor] We've seen already that Power BI Desktop and Service on Microsoft's two offerings. One is an application you download to your machine, and the other is a web based software or service. They offer really similar functionality, but they're not identical. And this video covers the broad differences between them and the reasons for that. The Venn diagram that you can see, summarizes that video. Now there's one thing to make clear upfront, Power BI Desktop is free to download, but you cannot get it on a Mac, just to save you hours of frustration. I'm working on a Mac, so I'm using pictures of Desktop to illustrate my point. In your version, things might have changed, and they might look a bit different. So, this is Power BI Desktop. Desktop gives you better tools for managing the data behind your report. So here we are, on the left you can see three icons, one for charts, one for data, and one there that means…

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