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This review is for Stats 101C since there's isn't a 101C page for her. I found her lectures to be very dry so I didn't go and just ended up reading the textbook which was far more helpful. Her class is pretty easy. The grading scheme is 25% homework, 35% midterm (24 hour take home), and 40% final exam project. The final exam project was a competition on Kaggle along with a project report. The grading on the homework and midterm were extremely lenient and I did good on all of those. However we never got a grade for our final exam and I somehow ended up with a B+. There were 6 homework assignments, each assignment being only 2-3 multipart problems but it was easy to do since the problems were from the textbook.
I think professor is nice. She recorded all the lectures and posted her slides so you don't need to go to class. I don't think I learned a lot in this class so I don't know if I'd take another class with her again.
Do not take this class with this professor. Do not pay attention to any reviews from covid-19. This class has changed drastically since moving to in-person. While the homework assignments are easy, they're only worth 10-20% of your grade (depending on which grading scheme works in your favor), while the midterm and final make up the remaining 80-90% of your grade which is completely insane considering how unfair the final is. The midterm was decent if you studied (pay careful attention to her worked out examples on the slides because these are what come up on the midterm) but the final was totally out of left field. I believe the average was around a D. The problems she asked us to solve were nothing like the homework problems or any of the worked-out examples on the slides, nor were they in the textbook either. No one finished the exam early and most people left the last few open-ended questions blank. I could have been given another week to study and still would have failed due to how unexpected the content was. She did curve the class but even with the curve I still had to fight for my life just to pass. Take it with miles or even alcocer if you can- her exams are too unpredictable.
Super easy!!! short homeworks, easy midterm and final project . she does not grade hard and for the two problem weekly homeworks the TA gives you the answers. highly highly recommend
I second the other review. Shi is an excellent choice for 101B because her lectures were clear and she gave helpful additional R code worksheets if you wanted to use R for the homework instead of manual computations. Her exams were fair; I felt like I did have the chance to demonstrate my knowledge and you can tell they were fair based on the even grade distribution (the final on the tougher side though).
She is very kind and considerate of what students are going through right now and was always willing to answer questions in lecture.
I recommend downloading the textbook to work through additional practice problems for the exams, but the lectures were already a useful resource.
Also, I had Diana Zhang as my TA and attending her discussions was very helpful.
The homework assignments were very doable, and you must get good grades from there. Homework grading is very generous, but her final exam was kinda hard even though they were open book. This quarter I did not study much and my exam grades were just bad, but she curved so generously. Also, she posted her lecture slides and videos for those who have time conflicts. I would definitely take her for the future quarters.
This review is for Stats 101C since there's isn't a 101C page for her. I found her lectures to be very dry so I didn't go and just ended up reading the textbook which was far more helpful. Her class is pretty easy. The grading scheme is 25% homework, 35% midterm (24 hour take home), and 40% final exam project. The final exam project was a competition on Kaggle along with a project report. The grading on the homework and midterm were extremely lenient and I did good on all of those. However we never got a grade for our final exam and I somehow ended up with a B+. There were 6 homework assignments, each assignment being only 2-3 multipart problems but it was easy to do since the problems were from the textbook.
I think professor is nice. She recorded all the lectures and posted her slides so you don't need to go to class. I don't think I learned a lot in this class so I don't know if I'd take another class with her again.
Do not take this class with this professor. Do not pay attention to any reviews from covid-19. This class has changed drastically since moving to in-person. While the homework assignments are easy, they're only worth 10-20% of your grade (depending on which grading scheme works in your favor), while the midterm and final make up the remaining 80-90% of your grade which is completely insane considering how unfair the final is. The midterm was decent if you studied (pay careful attention to her worked out examples on the slides because these are what come up on the midterm) but the final was totally out of left field. I believe the average was around a D. The problems she asked us to solve were nothing like the homework problems or any of the worked-out examples on the slides, nor were they in the textbook either. No one finished the exam early and most people left the last few open-ended questions blank. I could have been given another week to study and still would have failed due to how unexpected the content was. She did curve the class but even with the curve I still had to fight for my life just to pass. Take it with miles or even alcocer if you can- her exams are too unpredictable.
Super easy!!! short homeworks, easy midterm and final project . she does not grade hard and for the two problem weekly homeworks the TA gives you the answers. highly highly recommend
I second the other review. Shi is an excellent choice for 101B because her lectures were clear and she gave helpful additional R code worksheets if you wanted to use R for the homework instead of manual computations. Her exams were fair; I felt like I did have the chance to demonstrate my knowledge and you can tell they were fair based on the even grade distribution (the final on the tougher side though).
She is very kind and considerate of what students are going through right now and was always willing to answer questions in lecture.
I recommend downloading the textbook to work through additional practice problems for the exams, but the lectures were already a useful resource.
Also, I had Diana Zhang as my TA and attending her discussions was very helpful.
The homework assignments were very doable, and you must get good grades from there. Homework grading is very generous, but her final exam was kinda hard even though they were open book. This quarter I did not study much and my exam grades were just bad, but she curved so generously. Also, she posted her lecture slides and videos for those who have time conflicts. I would definitely take her for the future quarters.