Introducing Power BI dashboards

Dashboards in Power BI are where users of the business intelligence solution can go to see all the important information without having to switch between multiple reports. A dashboard is a type of content that is created and used from a Power BI workspace. Dashboards are only created with the Power BI service (https://www.powerbi.com) and not with Power BI Desktop. Dashboards tend to rely on visuals created in reports; however, it is possible to use tools such as Q&A to dynamically create visuals and directly pin them to a dashboard. Dashboards rely on the underlying datasets and data models used in reports, and they provide a new way of consuming the data, which provides some unique advantages over reports.

It should also be said that it's important to understand the distinction here between what Power BI refers to as a dashboard and what Power BI calls a report. Reports are typically created using the Desktop tool (sometimes can be created...