Beware! Since not many people give detailed reviews, I will be that one. Today I finished this course. Here are some important things you should know before enrolling: Pros: 1. Covered most of the crucial aspects of data modeling. 2. Contents are consistent. Cons: 1. I found a lot of information redundant. Such as: 'Imagine you are a data analyst...' OR 'This could help AdventureWork to gain better insights on...' I mean, you say that once or twice it's okay, but you don't need to repeat information like that for each lecture. You need to work on your information granularity. Plus, tons of obvious typos and misleading phrases exist in the reading materials. 2. Lack of exercise examples. AND WAIT A SECOND, The TWO MOST important assignments were missing critical Excel files for download! And one of them happened to be the final project! Guess what, customer service won't help you nor refund you, they ask you to post this issue and wait for 10 days for a response. Excuse me, why are you wasting my time to compensate for your own mistakes? Hell, I know if you would ever respond to me since I realized ppl were reflecting on this issue months ago, and no one cares! 3. 50% of the quizzes were okay, as they were asking the crucial aspects regarding the important concepts, but some questions were just playing word teasers. I mean this is a section where students are supposed to understand how to use DAX to create measures and stuff, but the total number of questions about the DAX is very limited. Compared with the previous modules, this one is a big disappointment and failure. If after reading this you still want to enroll, my suggestion is to enable yourself to do more research and not solely rely on the materials provided within this module. Additionally, skip the unnecessary wordy content to save your time and money!

The content was really interesting, but most of the instructions for exercises did not match the content of the materials provided. Also, there were several problems loading graded assignments.

A bit sloppy, exercises linked to wrong input dataset, most of the video lectures repeat the same generic information over and over and do not really provide a solid foundation about the concepts

Most of it's good, but at certain times I feel like the course is trying to purposely gaslight you with how it words questions. Certain Jargon, and terminology is used that is never explained or never broken down enough for a layman to understand what they're talking about. I found it very challenging but I also learned a lot. I also had trouble with some of the exercises It seemed like I wasn't given the appropriate dataset to follow along.

They teach like learners know everything and move so fast. Lack of examples in the lecture.

Too many misconsistencies in study materials. Sometimes they forgot to provide materials. Sometimes they provide the wrong file. And everywhere there are typos and factual mistakes. Tests with SINGLE choice sometimes tell you to select ALL THAT APPLY.

Multiple downloads were incomplete or just plain not the right ones for the lesson making it difficult or impossible to practice the skill sets covered. I wasn't a fan of how new concepts were introduced. A lot of information was thrown at you without a specific example to walk you through to apply and understand the concept until much later in the course. In general it was never clear how this information would help you build visualizations in Power BI.

Non matching files and examples are not explained properly. The learner has to already have the idea what should be done with data to understand the examples, as this is not explained with sufficient details. Most of the videos are full of corporate speak buzzwords instead of explaining how data moves with clear number and column changes.

terrible, videos with actors speaking lines they've learnt. No interaction for student in videos or links to practise files. Only 1 reading activity with a usable and practical practise virtual machine environment. Practise files with wrong data and reading activities with wrong instructions.

Too many distracting typographical errors that require some proofreading, and one Activity made you download a file that was not matched to the exercise. It was simply the wrong file. Another exercise was describing a file that was supposed to be an xlsx file, but what was available to download was a pbix file. So much time lost figuring out why your results are not coming out correct, only to discover that you were given the wrong file.

Do not recommend this course it cannot be done by our own pace, all the quizzes and practice questions are set to be taken every week, so it doesn't matter it you go faster or not, the questions in the forum section are never answered.

The content can be useful but a lot of the exercises were missing data, meaning they could not be completed. The exemplar images shown also sometimes did not match their descriptions, which is disappointing.

This course can be structured in a better way and can be made easier to understand. Currently it is difficult to understand and takes much more time than mentioned. Some exercise files don't work properly.

Difficult course a lot of issues with required files for assignments either missing or incorrect.

Lots of errors in this course.

Links are broken and course uses sessions which annoying for learners.

Very step by step in sequence and easy to understand course

This Course is Great and the instructor is perfect

why i am not able to open assesment even after it shows try again.

Great course except some mismatch in data file contents.

Very low quality control for this course. MANY hands on assignments where the data sets provided for download did not contain the necessary information to complete the task. There was also an exam where the "correct answer" was not the correct answer, as proven by the screen shot by the instructor. The problems with the course were reported as far back as 9/29/23, with no correction so far. And with Coursera's Help Desk only being able to help with problems with the videos, there is no recourse for the learner.

There are errors in the exercises (e.g. I need to calculate YTD measure on 'Total Sales' but 'Total Sales' column does not exist in the downloaded exercise file). The instructor is talking about trivialities (i.e. explaining the nothing in great detail) and when I need to use what I have learnt I have to consult the manual/language reference.

Quiz questions about aspects not covered in lessons, poor explanation of syntax and use cases, very few and limited scope examples of DAX, wrong downloadable files in exercises which made it impossible to follow the exercise instructions, impotent discussion forum (as of 08 Jan'24 0 posts and 0 replies by moderators). These are my observations from going through the first 2 weeks out of total 4 of the course. If you are reading this and considering enrolling, make sure you go through one-star and two-star ratings, the ones I read were accurate re problems in the course.

The modules in this course and other related courses are outdated, the exercise sample files are not correct and are missing data you need to complete the assignment. No one from Microsoft is monitoring the Discussion Forums. Learners have posted several questions in the forums, asking for help, reporting incorrect exercise files, reporting issues with course instructions, and no one is helping us. This is a waste of money and time.

Unfortunately, the course was a messy frustrating experience. MANY typos and errors in all of the materials. Incorrect answers on some quizzes and exams. Data files not matching what the instructions ask you do it. Quizzes and exams that don't align with the material that was taught and many questions that were simply designed to trick you instead of to test your knowledge.