Any Recommendations For A Better Power BI Course
Hi All,
I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of an excellent Power BI course.
Feedback for 365 Team:
When you have to read the Power BI docs to replace the course material, the course is clearly failing. The instructor provides zero context or reasoning as a background to what is being taught in the course. Painfully ineffective.
Hi Chase,
Sorry to hear you feel this way about the power bi course. I am happy to help with any topics you feel struggling.
Kind Regards,
Dimitar Shutev
Dimitar,
The following is pure honesty and intended to be helpful. I went over this twice to make sure it sounds constructive and not like an attack.
In response to your comment above, and to further illustrate my original post:
I would have to wait for a response every time I don't understand what you are trying to explain in the course. I don't have the time to do that. It's easier for me to read the Power BI Documentation and or other sources, which still costs me a lot of time but gets me an answer arguably quicker. A well designed course should not force the student to look at other sources to understand what the teacher is saying. A great example of where this has occurred for me in the course so far: 1. Active vs Inactive Relationships - No background explanation was offered on what active and inactive relationships are, why you choose one over the other, and why you have to create an inactive relationship so that you can create a measure to further filter your data in the desired way. In other words, you're not paving a basic conceptual foundation for this topic before you drill down into showing how to use them. Your videos are great at showing the technicals/how to do things. But without a basic conceptual foundation (context), I and other students will have no clue when and why to apply the topics you're teaching. Another great example of a topic that was not fully explained was the Measures video. The explanation of what a measure is in that video, is not geared towards students who are new to data science/bi (which as a reminder is the demographic the 365 Data Science Platform caters to). I have an inadequate understanding of measures and now will need to teach myself this from other sources.
If you don't understand or believe what I am trying to get across here, please go read the comments attached to your Power BI videos. You will see quite a few that express the same things I have mentioned here. I'm sorry if this was difficult for you to read, but somebody needed to provide you with honest feedback.