( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Would not recommend.
Please don't take the class unless you have a background in statistics (such as AP stats). The way he goes over the material makes it more confusing than it should be. Also, the class has a ton of busy work (labs and articles) that don't add to helping you understand the material. If you do take the class, hope that you get a helpful TA that will break down the material and go over the useless labs and articles so that you don't lose points.

explains well and is very nice during lecture. he will answer any question asked in lecture and will never make u feel dumb and instead say "thats a great question" even if he had just covered the answer in detail. with that being said his midterm was out of very little points. i scored one point below average o the mc and one point below average on the show your work and placed me at a swooping 10% below average (i scored around a C- and average was a B-) which i was very very very bitter about. However i did much better on my final (about 4 or 5 higher than average). This class is ALOT of work...weekly labs, quizes, and articles. however these helped my grade a lot. he has extra credit as well to bump ur grade by 2% which i was thankful for. i ended up getting a B+ in the class due to my midterm grade.

at the beginning he says the grade u get is the amount of work u put into the class and this is very true. i found his tests to be very fair yet challenging. his tests truly measure understanding and he really respects the students' intellect. overall i recommend him.

This is by far the worst professor I've had here. He does not care about students or learning and his TAs are both useless. He showed his true colors when he did not want us to ask him questions on how to do the extra credit, which seeing as how his TAs and himself absolutely fail when it comes to explaining something, no one will probably be able to do it. Stay away from this professor, he does not care about you and is only around to lower your GPA if you're a busy person.

DO NOT LISTEN TO THE REVIEWS FROM 2012. He is such a fail of a professor. Both him and the TAs are not responsive to emails, lectures could be put together by a 15 year old, explains concepts for way too long, always gives long-winded stories about statistics in general that aren't helpful at all, and always feels the need to talk really loud at us during lecture. Maybe he thinks by him being louder, we will be more interested....? That's simply not the case.

The most ineffective, disorganized, error-prone professor I've had in my four years. Having no stats experience whatsoever, I came in with hopes that I would learn and enjoy stats. Well, that hope is gone and my view of stats is forever tainted, I don't ever want to take another stats class if I'm going to have to learn 90% of the material by myself from online or supplemental material. His slides are horrendous: many typos, skips over a few without context, notations are all over the place, fails to give equations (he wants us to "learn the big picture" and does not give mathematical equations until after he gives a long complex abstract talk that could be condensed into short statements with concrete examples), labs are a complete mess (directions change DAILY and fail to work most of the time), quizzes also fail in many ways (grammar errors that affect the actual answer, gives questions on what we haven't learned). He's a nice guy and he wants people to learn, but really if you want to learn stats from the beginning DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS PLEASE. If you have previous stats experience from AP or something else it shouldn't be bad because the material seems straightforward enough if somebody taught them well but coming from no stats experience I've pretty much given up on learning stats in class and I am resorting to other materials.

He is one of the more ineffective lecturers I have taken. It is easier for me to understand the material by reading the slides at my own pace in the comfort of my room. He skims over the example problems he provides during class much too fast for people to actually understand what he is doing. There are also periodic and egregious spelling and grammar errors (and typos) on his quiz questions, slides, and exams. It isn't bad enough to where it's a hindrance, but it is extremely unprofessional. He also periodically just copies pages from the textbook into his lecture in lieu of making his own slide. This is NOT HELPFUL since you have to read all the text on the slide... He also shows an entire page of R code in his lectures from time to time in lieu of actually carrying out the arithmetic and calculations. This is especially frustrating because he just spews out answers without explaining the process. There have also been occasions where he uses DIFFERENT NOTATION for the same variable in the same lecture... And on top of all that, sometimes his calculations are just flat out incorrect... Overall, very frustrating going to class. I always leave a bit angrier and more confused than before. If he wasn't so kind and personable, I would be submitting a formal complaint to the Department of Statistics in a heartbeat.

Generally, he is an OK lecturer. He definitely doesn't explain the material as well as he could... He usually reads off the slides, but doesn't explain much further or word things in a way that make it easier to understand. His exams are fair, the textbook is useless, and you basically need to study the quiz questions and why they are right to do well on the conceptual parts of the exams... The material itself is dry, uninteresting, and highly inapplicable to other classes or real life. Lectures are more or less required (clickers), but you will honestly spend more time on the articles, labs, and quizzes (which are all unrelated, useless, and equally as boring). Bottom line, this class is not hard, but it is a big time sink, and most likely 80% of your class isn't going to care much about it either.

Not good. Spends ridiculous amounts of time going on tangents about statistics in general and then skips right past everything that would be helpful for doing the problems. Took AP Stats in high school, so the material is not difficult, but he doesn't actually teach you how to do any of the things you are expected to do for homework/quiz problems. Not organized at all, and labs are unrelated and a waste of time.