# Build your analytics app from scratch on the Platform

The goal of this tutorial is to get you familiar with the Platform so that you can start creating your own applications as soon and as quickly as possible. 

We'll walk you through the main steps to **build a data visualization app in less than 1 hour**. 

⛳️    The application to be built serves to visualize the rides in Chicago's railway stations. It will look like this by the end of this tutorial: 

![App Manager](picts/dashboard-final-new.png)

📥  You will use sample datasets, and all the features and pre-written code provided for you by the Platform.

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## Six easy steps

After having [created a Project](/en/getting-started/index?id=setting-up-your-environment), your data application will be created in 6 easy steps.

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   <div class="step">1</div>
   <a class="landing-link" href="#/en/getting-started/app-init/dc.md">
      <img data-no-zoom src="en/getting-started/app-init/picts/connect.png" alt="Connect" />
      <div class="text">
         <h2>Connect sources in the Connectors</h2>
         <p>Define, analyze & clean your data sources</p>
      </div>
   </a>
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<div class="Project-step">
   <div class="step">2</div>
   <a class="landing-link" href="#/en/getting-started/app-init/lhm.md">
      <img data-no-zoom src="en/getting-started/app-init/picts/organize.png" alt="Organize" />
      <div class="text">
         <h2>Organize your data in the Lakehouse Manager</h2>
         <p>Create and Build your data models</p>
      </div>
   </a>
</div>
<div class="Project-step">
   <div class="step">3</div>
   <a class="landing-link" href="#/en/getting-started/app-init/dpe.md">
      <img data-no-zoom src="en/getting-started/app-init/picts/transfer.png" alt="Transfer"/>
      <div class="text">
         <h2>Prepare the data on the Data Processing Engine</h2>
         <p>Configure the data import and transformation processes</p>
      </div>
   </a>
</div>
<div class="Project-step">
   <div class="step">4</div>
   <a class="landing-link" href="#/en/getting-started/app-init/query-builder.md">
      <img data-no-zoom src="en/getting-started/app-init/picts/query.png" alt="Query"/>
      <div class="text">
         <h2>Make queries in the Analytics Manager</h2>
         <p>Create custom queries to retrieve data from your data model</p>
      </div>
   </a>
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<div class="Project-step">
   <div class="step">5</div>
   <a class="landing-link" href="#/en/getting-started/app-init/api-manager.md">
      <img data-no-zoom src="en/getting-started/app-init/picts/expose.png" alt="Expose"/>
      <div class="text">
         <h2>Expose your data on the API Manager</h2>
         <p>Expose your data by deploying an API dedicated to your Project</p>
      </div>
   </a>
</div>
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   <div class="step">6</div>
   <a class="landing-link" href="#/en/getting-started/app-init/app-manager.md">
      <img data-no-zoom src="en/getting-started/app-init/picts/visualize.png" alt="Visualize"/>
      <div class="text">
         <h2>Visualize it on the APP Manager</h2>
         <p>Create and deploy your front-end application</p>
      </div>
   </a>
</div>