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 # udemy-power-bi-service
 
+I'm going to run this course on Power BI service: <https://www.udemy.com/course/power-bi-service/learn/lecture/25124728#overview>
+
+## Notes
+
+### Setting expectations
+
+- The course goes along with Power BI Desktop course. It is recommended to run that first. Hehe.
+- Focus on the core parts of Power BI Service.
+
+### Intro to PBI Service
+
+#### Ecosystem
+
+- The cloud environment to share reports and data.
+- It connects to data directly.
+- You can also build reports here, not just on PBI Desktop.
+- Main environment for sharing and publishing.
+- There is also PBI Mobile, but well, who cares about that.
+
+Desktop vs Service
+
+- Desktop can connect to more Databases than Service.
+- Data Models can only be built in Desktop.
+- DAX is only present in Desktop.
+- Role level security can only be created in Desktop.
+- Service has Gateways and Dataflows
+- Service can package stuff into Workspaces and Apps.
+- Both have Power Query.
+
+#### Account Tiers
+
+There are three individual accounts:
+
+- Free
+- Pro
+  - This is what report builders need.
+  - Around $9/month
+  - Can create workspaces
+  - Can create Email Subscriptions
+  - Can share reports with other Pro or Premium users
+  - Can create apps
+- Premium per user
+  - All of Pro
+  - AI fancy thingies
+  - Advanced Dataflows
+  - Deployment Pipelines
+  - Other stuff nobody cares about
+
+You can also buy a big, Premium org license. It pretty much means you buy it for the entire org. You still need to pay Pro licenses for report builders.
+
+![Alt text](image.png)
+
+I have Pro in Superhog.
+
+#### User Personas
+
+- Creator: build stuff
+- Analyzer: consumes stuff to answer business questions and creates his own stuff on the representation layer to some extent
+- Collaborator: publishes stuff and manages workspaces/apps
+
+#### UI
+
+Fluffy stuff. Dear god, this UI is confusing and bloaty.
+
+#### Workspaces
+
+`My Workspace` is your personal folder for your own stuff.
+
+All other workspaces are `Shared workspaces`.
+
+The personal one doesn't have data flows (Power Query)
+
+Content objects:
+- Workbook, report or dashboard -> Visualize stuff
+
+Data objects:
+- Datasets and Dataflows
+
+#### Building Blocks of Workspaces
+
+- Datasets and workbooks: build from datasources
+- Reports: pages with visuals and filters. Can use one or more datasets
+- Dashboard: a collection of visuals that come from one or more reports
+