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Data Visualization With Power BI

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.

Windows and Powershell

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 among developers, business intelligence tools are still dominated by proprietary software.

Eshopp

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.

Assignment

Ensure that you're on Windows.
Open PowerShell.
Install Golang and the Boot.dev CLI on Windows. Throughout this course, you'll be using the Boot.dev CLI to run our tests (which are just CLI commands) against your local environment. Install it now if you don't have it already. All the instructions and troubleshooting info are in the readme on GitHub.
Verify the installation:
```
bootdev --version
```
If you're stuck, reach out in the help forums of our Discord server.
Once the bootdev command is working, log in and follow the instructions:
```
bootdev login
```
Once you've installed the bootdev CLI and logged in, copy and paste the submit command from the right into your terminal and execute it.

Lessons have a series of "commands" that run on your local machine, and a series of tests that check 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.

In some lessons, including this one, you won't be penalized for failed submissions. Not every lesson in this course works that way, so read the instructions carefully and follow the submit flow that each lesson asks for!

You can copy the submit commands with the id ready-to-go from the pane on the right.