Guani Wu
Department of Statistics
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3.9
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Clarity 3.6 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
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Dec. 22, 2020

I didn't really go to class so I can't say much about Prof. Wu except that he once played Animal Crossing music during our mid-class break, which is pretty sweet. The course content was presented in a very clear way in the lecture slides and the textbook. These course materials were enough for me to complete the homework and open-note quizzes and do quite well on them. Like others have noted, the labs were kinda pointless. If you get a TA who helps you through them step-by-step, you should be fine; if you don't, I recommend making friends with someone who DOES have a helpful TA or joining a GroupMe chat for the class. The midterm and final were not too difficult, but the wording of the questions can be tricky. I finished the midterm with extra time left and made the mistake of submitting early. If you have time left on either of the exams, use it to go through every single question to ensure that you weren't confused by the wording. There are only 20-something questions, where some questions are worth more points than others, so missing one can be the difference between an A and a B.

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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
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Dec. 22, 2020

I'm a poli sci major that hates math, but Wu made this fairly painless. He's an incredibly nice, personable, and helpful professor that clearly cares about students succeeding. The content isn't that interesting but Wu teaches in a very clear manner that made it fairly easy. It is easy to get behind, however, so I'd recommend staying on top of lectures and actually reading the textbook (I think I'd space out on a lot of the lectures if I didn't have the textbook's background knowledge).
The lab portion of Stats 10 is totally ridiculous, but most TA's walk you through it step by step so it's fine.
Wu writes pretty hard exams, as well. The midterm was easy but he used relatively confusing language that lead to the mean score in the class being 73. The final was also hard, with a mean score of a 72... so take studying for the tests seriously. In my class he curved pretty generously (dropped a few low scores and rounded some things up, I believe), but I'm not sure if this is the norm.
If you have to take stats 10, Professor Wu is a good person to take it with!

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: B+
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Feb. 22, 2022

I took this class as an easy GE, and yes the content was easy but professor Wu did not help and support his students after exams. The class average was a 75 and many people had questions regarding why answers were wrong, the professor and TA both said that they did not know and practice problems would not be provided. The content of the class wasn't difficult it was just more professor Wu's problems were oddly phrased and led to me doing bad in the midterm but made it up in my final significantly (once I realized that the Professor's creates his questions as a trick). I would recommend taking this class with a different professor as the content is easy yet it was just taught not in a good way.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: A
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Dec. 28, 2021

I thought the professor was good. His lectures were pretty boring but if you pay attention the entire time you'll be fine. His slides are super helpful. I found that most people who are STEM majors will find this class to be a breeze, while my non-stem peers didn't do as well.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: B
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Dec. 19, 2021

Professor Wu himself is really nice, but I don't think he was all that great at explaining in a way that everyone understands. He basically reads the slides word for word and then gives homework out of the textbook. I took AP STATS in high school but this class threw me for a loop. I would not take this class with Professor Wu if you are NOT a math oriented person, because I feel like the people who did well in this class were people that were in math/science related majors. The midterm and final are HARD, they are much harder than the quizzes and the practice exams, and I honestly did not find a great way to prepare myself for them. Also, do not expect your TA's to be very helpful with the work that you do in lecture. I asked my TA for help on homework questions multiple times and he was unable to find an answer, or was unsure of himself. It's pretty much like you are taking 2 separate classes: lecture, where you learn about introductory statistics, and discussion where you learn basic coding. If you are intimidated by the coding in this class, DON'T BE. Professor Wu does not include it on the exams, and your TA will literally give you all the answers in discussion. Overall, it is not the absolute worst class you could take, but I Personally would not take it with Professor Wu again.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: B+
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Dec. 16, 2021

TLDR; the class is relatively easy, the professor was pretty good and explained well, but the exams were difficult imo.

Admittedly, this class was relatively easy in terms of class content. As someone who didn't take AP Stats, it was easy to follow along, although there were some concepts that I had some trouble with. But all in all, if you pay attention to the lectures and read through the textbook you should be fine. I had this class entirely in person. So his lectures are about an hour and fifteen and he uses powerpoints, which I believe he posts on CCLE. He also recorded his lectures so it wasn't a big issue if you missed some classes; although participation doesn't matter, he did pass around a paper a few times throughout the quarter as a sign-in sheet, but that was for the school, not the class. As a lecturer, he's pretty good; he explains the concepts pretty well and gives a lot of examples in his slides; I found myself understanding the contents of the course pretty well.

The real kicker was the exams. He does provide sample exams for the midterm and final, but I wouldn't put too much trust into those as representative of the actual exams. From what I know, they're recycled questions from throughout all the stats classes. In my opinion, Wu's exams were much much harder than the sample he gives; the samples probably work as a reminder, but the actual exams were more specific and were often worded in a tricky way. It was entirely multiple-choice, about 25-26 questions, each worth about 4 points. But you can see that missing a few questions isn't desirable. I believe for my class, the midterm mean was 71, which he did not curve by the way, and the final mean was about 66. I would say, the quiz questions are the closest to the types of questions you'll get on the exams. You get about 6 or so quizzes on CCLE, one attempt but it's not timed.

As for homework and labs, they were manageable; he wanted everything to be typed. We got 6 homework assignments, the 7th one being extra credit, an extra 2% to our grade. The homework assignments are relatively easy, all from the textbook, and all based on the content we learned, and if you didn't remember, you could look back in the textbook. The textbook is mandatory, but I got it through the Inclusive Access thing. For the odd questions, you can check your answers in the back of the book, for the evens, the odd question before was usually a similar style of question. FYI, some questions had multiple parts. And often, the longest questions for me were the calculating ones; you can imagine how long calculating standard deviation usually takes, especially when you're typing out the equation and showing all your work. The labs are pretty difficult to go through on your own if you don't already have knowledge in R coding; you do have to download R but they show you how to do it. We had 5 labs. I would say it depends on your TA. Personally, my TA (Vincent Liu) was a bit shy and awkward, very quiet, and didn't really explain well, but he basically gave us a walkthrough of the labs; an easy way to ace the labs. He did it step by step (I can't speak for the other TA's), so going to the discussions is what I recommend for labs. I got perfect scores on my labs because of it.

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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
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June 14, 2021

This class wasn't difficult. The content was straightforward and Professor Wu was a good lecturer. There were a few R programming labs, but the TAs gave all the answers in discussion. The midterm and final were multiple choice and while they were on Respondus, they weren't bad. Overall, I would highly recommend this class and Professor Wu.

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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
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Jan. 7, 2021

Professor Wu explains the content really well. Midterm and Final are all MC questions. Labs and hws are easy.

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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
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Dec. 24, 2020

Professor Wu is an understanding, nice professor. However, his lectures are really just not stimulating whatsoever. I found them to quite boring and poorly paced. We ended up having to rush through the last chapter leaving many students (including myself) confused.
The homework can take some time, but I found it to be fairly straightforward. The quizzes can sometimes have unclear wording, but they weren't difficult.
The assigned labs tend to stray from the lecture materials, but they're walked through by TAs so they're not that tough to complete.
I found the exams to be quite difficult compared to the lecture example problems and the HW questions. The midterm wasn't bad, but I found the final to be pretty tough. Luckily though, he's quite lenient on grading and applies some extra credit/curves while dropping the lowest HW + quiz grades.

All in all, Stats 10 with Wu is a class where success is certainly achievable, although the lectures and section material are mind-numbing and far from engaging.

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Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A
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July 3, 2020

It doesn't get better than Professor Wu. This guy is the nicest, most friendly teacher I've had. He was so accommodating with the whole COVID situation, but tbh he didn't even need to be. Stats 10 really isn't a hard class. You get notes during the tests and the quizzes weren't even timed. They are super fair when grading homework and labs and still drop your lowest grades. And seriously - Wu is the best.

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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
Dec. 22, 2020

I didn't really go to class so I can't say much about Prof. Wu except that he once played Animal Crossing music during our mid-class break, which is pretty sweet. The course content was presented in a very clear way in the lecture slides and the textbook. These course materials were enough for me to complete the homework and open-note quizzes and do quite well on them. Like others have noted, the labs were kinda pointless. If you get a TA who helps you through them step-by-step, you should be fine; if you don't, I recommend making friends with someone who DOES have a helpful TA or joining a GroupMe chat for the class. The midterm and final were not too difficult, but the wording of the questions can be tricky. I finished the midterm with extra time left and made the mistake of submitting early. If you have time left on either of the exams, use it to go through every single question to ensure that you weren't confused by the wording. There are only 20-something questions, where some questions are worth more points than others, so missing one can be the difference between an A and a B.

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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
Dec. 22, 2020

I'm a poli sci major that hates math, but Wu made this fairly painless. He's an incredibly nice, personable, and helpful professor that clearly cares about students succeeding. The content isn't that interesting but Wu teaches in a very clear manner that made it fairly easy. It is easy to get behind, however, so I'd recommend staying on top of lectures and actually reading the textbook (I think I'd space out on a lot of the lectures if I didn't have the textbook's background knowledge).
The lab portion of Stats 10 is totally ridiculous, but most TA's walk you through it step by step so it's fine.
Wu writes pretty hard exams, as well. The midterm was easy but he used relatively confusing language that lead to the mean score in the class being 73. The final was also hard, with a mean score of a 72... so take studying for the tests seriously. In my class he curved pretty generously (dropped a few low scores and rounded some things up, I believe), but I'm not sure if this is the norm.
If you have to take stats 10, Professor Wu is a good person to take it with!

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: B+
Feb. 22, 2022

I took this class as an easy GE, and yes the content was easy but professor Wu did not help and support his students after exams. The class average was a 75 and many people had questions regarding why answers were wrong, the professor and TA both said that they did not know and practice problems would not be provided. The content of the class wasn't difficult it was just more professor Wu's problems were oddly phrased and led to me doing bad in the midterm but made it up in my final significantly (once I realized that the Professor's creates his questions as a trick). I would recommend taking this class with a different professor as the content is easy yet it was just taught not in a good way.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: A
Dec. 28, 2021

I thought the professor was good. His lectures were pretty boring but if you pay attention the entire time you'll be fine. His slides are super helpful. I found that most people who are STEM majors will find this class to be a breeze, while my non-stem peers didn't do as well.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: B
Dec. 19, 2021

Professor Wu himself is really nice, but I don't think he was all that great at explaining in a way that everyone understands. He basically reads the slides word for word and then gives homework out of the textbook. I took AP STATS in high school but this class threw me for a loop. I would not take this class with Professor Wu if you are NOT a math oriented person, because I feel like the people who did well in this class were people that were in math/science related majors. The midterm and final are HARD, they are much harder than the quizzes and the practice exams, and I honestly did not find a great way to prepare myself for them. Also, do not expect your TA's to be very helpful with the work that you do in lecture. I asked my TA for help on homework questions multiple times and he was unable to find an answer, or was unsure of himself. It's pretty much like you are taking 2 separate classes: lecture, where you learn about introductory statistics, and discussion where you learn basic coding. If you are intimidated by the coding in this class, DON'T BE. Professor Wu does not include it on the exams, and your TA will literally give you all the answers in discussion. Overall, it is not the absolute worst class you could take, but I Personally would not take it with Professor Wu again.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: B+
Dec. 16, 2021

TLDR; the class is relatively easy, the professor was pretty good and explained well, but the exams were difficult imo.

Admittedly, this class was relatively easy in terms of class content. As someone who didn't take AP Stats, it was easy to follow along, although there were some concepts that I had some trouble with. But all in all, if you pay attention to the lectures and read through the textbook you should be fine. I had this class entirely in person. So his lectures are about an hour and fifteen and he uses powerpoints, which I believe he posts on CCLE. He also recorded his lectures so it wasn't a big issue if you missed some classes; although participation doesn't matter, he did pass around a paper a few times throughout the quarter as a sign-in sheet, but that was for the school, not the class. As a lecturer, he's pretty good; he explains the concepts pretty well and gives a lot of examples in his slides; I found myself understanding the contents of the course pretty well.

The real kicker was the exams. He does provide sample exams for the midterm and final, but I wouldn't put too much trust into those as representative of the actual exams. From what I know, they're recycled questions from throughout all the stats classes. In my opinion, Wu's exams were much much harder than the sample he gives; the samples probably work as a reminder, but the actual exams were more specific and were often worded in a tricky way. It was entirely multiple-choice, about 25-26 questions, each worth about 4 points. But you can see that missing a few questions isn't desirable. I believe for my class, the midterm mean was 71, which he did not curve by the way, and the final mean was about 66. I would say, the quiz questions are the closest to the types of questions you'll get on the exams. You get about 6 or so quizzes on CCLE, one attempt but it's not timed.

As for homework and labs, they were manageable; he wanted everything to be typed. We got 6 homework assignments, the 7th one being extra credit, an extra 2% to our grade. The homework assignments are relatively easy, all from the textbook, and all based on the content we learned, and if you didn't remember, you could look back in the textbook. The textbook is mandatory, but I got it through the Inclusive Access thing. For the odd questions, you can check your answers in the back of the book, for the evens, the odd question before was usually a similar style of question. FYI, some questions had multiple parts. And often, the longest questions for me were the calculating ones; you can imagine how long calculating standard deviation usually takes, especially when you're typing out the equation and showing all your work. The labs are pretty difficult to go through on your own if you don't already have knowledge in R coding; you do have to download R but they show you how to do it. We had 5 labs. I would say it depends on your TA. Personally, my TA (Vincent Liu) was a bit shy and awkward, very quiet, and didn't really explain well, but he basically gave us a walkthrough of the labs; an easy way to ace the labs. He did it step by step (I can't speak for the other TA's), so going to the discussions is what I recommend for labs. I got perfect scores on my labs because of it.

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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
June 14, 2021

This class wasn't difficult. The content was straightforward and Professor Wu was a good lecturer. There were a few R programming labs, but the TAs gave all the answers in discussion. The midterm and final were multiple choice and while they were on Respondus, they weren't bad. Overall, I would highly recommend this class and Professor Wu.

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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
Jan. 7, 2021

Professor Wu explains the content really well. Midterm and Final are all MC questions. Labs and hws are easy.

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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
Dec. 24, 2020

Professor Wu is an understanding, nice professor. However, his lectures are really just not stimulating whatsoever. I found them to quite boring and poorly paced. We ended up having to rush through the last chapter leaving many students (including myself) confused.
The homework can take some time, but I found it to be fairly straightforward. The quizzes can sometimes have unclear wording, but they weren't difficult.
The assigned labs tend to stray from the lecture materials, but they're walked through by TAs so they're not that tough to complete.
I found the exams to be quite difficult compared to the lecture example problems and the HW questions. The midterm wasn't bad, but I found the final to be pretty tough. Luckily though, he's quite lenient on grading and applies some extra credit/curves while dropping the lowest HW + quiz grades.

All in all, Stats 10 with Wu is a class where success is certainly achievable, although the lectures and section material are mind-numbing and far from engaging.

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Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A
July 3, 2020

It doesn't get better than Professor Wu. This guy is the nicest, most friendly teacher I've had. He was so accommodating with the whole COVID situation, but tbh he didn't even need to be. Stats 10 really isn't a hard class. You get notes during the tests and the quizzes weren't even timed. They are super fair when grading homework and labs and still drop your lowest grades. And seriously - Wu is the best.

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3.9
Overall Rating
Based on 26 Users
Easiness 3.7 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 3.6 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.6 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 3.9 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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