The tutorial guides the reader through building a basic dashboard application using Cube, a data visualization library, and D3.js for chart rendering. The application is built on top of Postgres as the database and uses React with Material UI for the frontend. The reader learns how to create a Cube API service, generate a data schema, and render charts with D3.js. The tutorial also covers adding interactivity to the dashboard by introducing filters and making it dynamic. The guide provides an online demo and the complete source code of the example app on Github.