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 ## Installation
 
-To create an virtual environment and install the required packages, simply run the `setup.sh` file. 
+To create an virtual environment and install the required packages, simply run the `setup.sh` file.  \\
+To activate the virtual environment, use `source venv/bin/activate`
 
 
 ## Downloading data
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 For the experiments described in the Sections 4.2 and 4.3, a data download is required, for which we make use of code from 
 ["bmdal_reg"](https://github.com/dholzmueller/bmdal_reg), see the code within the folder `utils_data`.
 
+- To download the data (after activating the virtual environment), run `python3 download_data.py`
+
 
 ## Rerunning experiments and reproducing the plots