I thought this class would be super cool, and it was alright, but nothing special. More of an emphasis on the actual coding and computer science stuff than analyzing the results of data. It's a mix on both, but more stats than poli sci. Overall, easy class to fill that Poli Sci stats requirement, so would recommend just to get it out of the way. Easy, but tedious class.

The HW is super annoying because the assignments are so long, making it take forever. It's a flipped classroom, so you learn through the HW assignments. It's kinda figure it out on your own cause of that. Sometimes, you don't know the answer and there's nobody to teach it to you!

For lectures, Roberts goes through a Jupyter Notebook every class, which is graded. Ironically, going to lecture is the best way to be lazy, because you can just copy the Professor's work on the big screen. If you don't go to lecture, you have to figure out the questions yourself, which can be hard. So I recommend going to lecture, so that you can copy Roberts notebook and take less time to do it yourself.

TA sections were not helpful. Mine were on Zoom and nobody really cared, including my TA. Sometimes there were practice Quizzes but that was the only helpful part.

Grading: Quizzes, mostly easy are worth a good 40% of the grade. Take the practice quizzes and you'll be fine. The final was weirdly hard, considering the quizzes were easy, but I still got an A so no complaints.

I'll probably forget most of this and never use most of it again to be honest. But it was easy and doable.

Compared to the other Stats 10 Professors his grading is really easy. The Ta´s aren´t really helpfull because they barely speak english and aren´t familiar with the required software. Don´t go to the discussion! Just the Lab
He is really concerned about his students and wants everyone to understand the material.
I would definetely recommend him.

I struggled with statistics in high school, so I came into this course afraid of how challenging the material would be for me, especially with the focus on R which I had never done before. However, Professor Roberts made it clear from the first day that he wanted us to do well in this course. He drops our lowest quiz grade, provides extra credit opportunities, and completes our coding notebook assignments in tandem with us during class which helps me to understand better. We had four quizzes in this course, one online due to the evacuation and fires and three in-person which consisted of a 10 question multiple choice portion about statistical concepts and a Jupyter notebook which focused on applying the R functions we have learned. I have done well on all the quizzes, and as long as you complete the homework, are engaged in lecture and compete the Jupyter notebooks, you will have no trouble scoring well on exams. My only critique is that lectures often ran long, but only about 5-10 minutes over. This was only because Professor Roberts explains concepts in lecture in great depth to ensure we have a solid understanding, and that can lead us to take a bit longer on the Jupyter notebooks. Overall, this course made me more interested in statistics and data science and confident in my use of R which will serve me well in the future.

OK, I applied to this class a week late but trust please pay attention to this class. It is a self-taught coding class at least the quarter I took it. The modules are really interactive and if you pay attention you should do well if you remember the codes on paper because you will be tested on it. The lecture itself is like a homework give away but he will expect you to know the content before class. Best of luck.

Yo this class was brutal I mean absolutely brutal. We would have several things due in the span of a week. I can live with weekly quizzes, and the occasional writing assignment. But this guy would have us do a writing assignment every 10 days it seemed, with online quizzes and also quiz us in lecture on the quiz we just took! also his lecture skills absolute garbage. like his slides made no sense there wasnt a common sense way to follow along to take notes. We had Unit exams also known as problem sets plus a midterm and a final. OH MY GOD THE MIDTERM AND FINAL. Bro he showed up to the midterm TEN MINUTES LATE and refused to give us the extra time on it. like brother youre the reason why we dont have time. so then on to the final. he gives us examples of previous finals with INCORRECT answer sheets. Like what the actual fuck. With the final practices theres segments that require drawing and graphing, for my cheat sheet. Just to show up for the final and it is all multiple choice. I mean god damn it I could have added more notes in the space of my graphs.
Also he didnt fix grades that he said he was going to fix. which is why i got the C+. I had a 79.78. I sent an email saying something along the lines like "Hey i noticed my grade is reading at a C+ and there's a few things that havent been corrected and that can boost my grade to a B-. Which ya know is a big deal for my gpa." Just to see my final grade as a C+ like are you fucking kidding me. I cant even retake the class.

My overall issue is the sheer amount of information he was throwing at us and we didnt have a discussion section. Like if we had that then we probably would have been a lot better off. So yeah I don't like the guy.

I loved this class! I'm a Poli Sci major that really enjoys STEM and it teaches R in course kata. It's a lot of async work but I really enjoyed it. However, if you have to code in R in the future for stats it's not very applicable in R studio. Quizzes are just like the practice quizzes they give out. I'd recommend this class if you're interested in coding and need a pre req!

The concepts of this class are pretty challenging, even after finishing the class with an A- I still don't fully understand some of it. Roberts often had problems finishing the planned lecture material for the day, often resulting in him rushing through material. Lectures were often confusing and he includes pollev questions for your participation grade. The tests were pretty tough, but he does curve them. Additionally, the tests are not a huge portion of your grade. I would not want to take this class again, but it wasn't terrible.

Yes, the class is a reverse method but it’s coding. Easy as long as you don’t procrastinate and actually do the work. People are too dramatic; all exams are open notes and textbook so you’ll be fine.

Strengths: Dr. Roberts is one of the most interesting and personable professors I've had. I liked his enthusiasm and excitement. I enjoyed the podcasts and assigned readings. They were easy to digest and thought-provoking. The problem sets, and essays were a good way to work towards mastery. The grading system was excellent and accounted for the difficulty of the course. I liked the participation polls and felt they made the class more engaging. The problem sets did help prepare us for exams. I appreciate that he took time to hold labs after class.

Weaknesses: This course was very challenging. While the textbook and assigned readings were fine, the lectures failed to clarify complex topics. I think they were too fast, and large topics on exams were glazed over in lectures. Even in the lab, the explanation was a bit too fast-paced when asked to clarify. This class prioritized getting through the bulk of the textbook rather than deeper understanding/learning. The weekly quizzes did little to prepare us for exam questions. I would've liked more clear grading rubrics for participation and essays. The class was too fast and vague for the level of understanding needed to do well.

I had read bad reviews about this professor before taking this course and was a little worried but it all turned out okay. He was a relatively interesting lecturer, my main issue with him was how consistently he would talk past the time that class ended. He once talked for 15 minutes after the scheduled end of lecture and although we were free to leave at any time I knew I’d have to come back and watch the recording to learn the material anyways so I felt like I had to stay. I wish he respected our time more, but the content of the course was decent and I didn’t think that the exams were that hard. One thing I didn't like was the pollev quizzes in class which were graded, meaning that even if you attended you lose participation points for missing questions on in class online response questions. I think these should have been completion based. There were assignments due most weekends so this class kept me busy and was not easy but I didn’t find it hard to get a good grade considering I did all the assignments. Also he says that he has labs but they are really optional office hours. I never went.