CourseVerdict

Power BI Essential Training vs Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Professional Certificate

Same Bayesian formula, same rubric — so the difference in scores reflects the difference in the courses, not the difference in how we evaluated them.

LinkedIn Learning · Gini von Courter · Business & Marketing

Power BI Essential Training

4.0/ 5 · 40 opinions
25 positive10 neutral5 negative/ 40 total

Google Career Certificates (Coursera) · Business & Marketing

Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Professional Certificate

0.0/ 5 · 25 opinions
17 positive5 neutral3 negative/ 25 total

Per-criterion

Power BI Essential Training

Content quality4.0 / 5

Solid coverage of the Power BI Desktop surface — Get Data, Power Query, basic modelling, intro DAX, visuals and publishing. Depth stops short of advanced DAX, row-level security and deployment pipelines.

Instructor4.2 / 5

Gini von Courter is one of LinkedIn Learning's most prolific Microsoft instructors with 250+ courses across Office, SharePoint and Power Platform. Reviewers describe her delivery as calm, methodical and enterprise-friendly.

Value for money3.9 / 5

Included in the LinkedIn Learning subscription (~$40/month) and bundled with LinkedIn Premium. HN commenters repeatedly flag US public-library access as the cheapest path. Power BI Desktop itself is free.

Practical frameworks3.7 / 5

Coherent walkthrough of the everyday workflow — connect, shape in Power Query, model, write basic DAX, build visuals, publish. Stops short of advanced DAX, time intelligence and dataflows.

Real-world use4.0 / 5

Power BI is the dominant BI tool in Microsoft-heavy enterprises and the common next step after Excel for finance, ops and analyst roles. Maps cleanly onto what a junior analyst builds week one.

Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Professional Certificate

Scoring methodology applies identically to every course on the site — see the formula.