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Overall really enjoyed the course. Nice balance between demos, guided practice and independent practice. I really enjoyed the exercises where criteria was displayed and we had ~20 minutes to build it up. Content felt very heavy on dashboard creation with an accelerated run thru PowerQuery material in the last several days; I think this could be a bit more balanced. My company had 5 students with stronger use needs for automated data manipulation than db's. The SQL review on Day10 was a bit fuzzy, I couldn't quite follow the benefits or use cases where this would be relevant. I would recommend adding a 5min break to the middle of each session for biological needs; 2.5 hrs is a long shot for some folks. We spent about 5 minutes at the beginning of each lesson setting up the day's folder structure, copying over data sets, etc. Could eliminate this and replace with a break if the overall folder structure was distributed with data sets already loaded in place at start of course. I.e. send zipped structure with folders for Days 1-10, each containing the ""Project X - Dashboard"" subfolders with Sales.Data.csv, etc, already saved in place. Thanks for the experience! looking forward to applying the knowledge!

I had a little experience with Power BI prior to the class. The information given greatly expanded my knowledge and I am excited to put the knowledge to use. Sami's instructions were very easy to follow and he made sure to answer everyone's questions. The only issue I had with the course was with the students not the instructor or course itself. It was a bit frustrating when some of the students were not prepared (especially not having the system requirements installed) and we had to wait for them to download materials or software. Sami handled it professionally but it took away time that could have been used for training. Overall, I am very please with what I have learned and will be looking into taking the Full Stack BI training. Thank You, Iris Bradshaw

I liked the pace and content of this introduction to Power BI. The instructor was able to quickly troubleshoot most issues that people had, although some problems did stall the pace quite a bit at times (participants really should have a strong Excel skillset and ability to manage files). Perhaps on a daily basis before the training , a quick 'setup' email would be helpful (which folders to create and which files to copy) so that everyone could set themselves up ahead of time. (Or include day-by-day setup instructions in the content zip file with this info.) On another note, I would like to have spent more time on publishing and refreshing published reports (and the Power BI workspace) instead of the SQL server mini course. As it was, though, the lessons we learned in this training will be almost immediately applied and the results should be very helpful to people in my organization looking for dashboard summaries of their data. Thank you.

Sami did a great job introducing the basics of Power BI through instruction and hands-on learning. This is a good course for a complete beginner, and would probably benefit some early intermediate students as well. My only complaint would be the amount of time needed to troubleshoot so many students' technical issues. We probably spend 40% of the total class time with Sami troubleshooting. It's not a knock on Sami or the course. Maybe a slightly smaller class would make it a little easier.

This training was great! I've been working with Power BI for a little while now but was mostly self-taught so it was nice to learn some best practices for the way to do things. Also good to learn more about DAX and Power Query. Thank you Sami!