Welcome to "Learn Data Visualization with Power BI"! In this course, you'll gain hands-on experience building visualizations, reports, and dashboards in Power BI – from simple charts to rich, shareable insights.
Unlike most Boot.dev courses, this one requires that you use Windows. Power BI Desktop is unfortunately a Windows-only application.
You might be wondering, "Why not teach data visualization with a cross-platform or open-source tool?" Simply put, Power BI is the most popular business intelligence tool. Despite open-source being very popular amongst developers, business intelligence tools are still dominated by proprietary software.
In this course we'll be building reports for a fictional e-commerce company: Eshopp. Eshopp sells all sorts of super cool products online. You know, truly innovative stuff like "smart" toasters and "AI-powered" coffee mugs.
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Lessons have a series of "commands" that run on your local machine, and a series of tests that are checked against the results of those commands. There are two modes for running commands with the CLI: run and submit:
bootdev run <id>: Runs the commands and shows the results. This is meant to be used for debugging, but it won't tell you explicitly whether or not you've passed the tests.bootdev run <id> -s: Runs the commands and gives you pass/fail feedback. On success, this will also mark the lesson as complete in the Boot.dev web app. If you get it wrong, though, you'll potentially lose your sharpshooter spree, so be sure to use run first!You can copy the run/submit commands with the id ready-to-go from the pane on the right.