diff --git a/example/char-rnn/main.go b/example/char-rnn/main.go
index 9ed957c..7d187ee 100644
--- a/example/char-rnn/main.go
+++ b/example/char-rnn/main.go
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ func main() {
 			if batchCount%500 == 0 {
 				fmt.Printf("Epoch %v - Batch %v \n", epoch, batchCount)
 			}
+			fmt.Printf("dataIter: progress: %v\n", dataIter.Progress())
 		} // infinite for-loop
 
 		sampleStr := sample(data, lstm, linear, device)
diff --git a/ts/data.go b/ts/data.go
index 493a6d3..16dd97e 100644
--- a/ts/data.go
+++ b/ts/data.go
@@ -226,6 +226,12 @@ func NewTextData(filename string) (*TextData, error) {
 	}, nil
 }
 
+func (tdi *TextDataIter) Progress() float32 {
+	startIndex := (tdi.BatchIndex * tdi.BatchSize)
+	availableIndices := tdi.IndexesLen
+	progress := float32(startIndex) / float32(availableIndices)
+	return progress
+}
 // Labels returns the number of different `character` (rune) used by the dataset.
 func (td *TextData) Labels() (retVal int64) {
 	return int64(len(td.CharForLabel))