Professor Tsiang in amazing professor who really tries his best to make sure that his students are learning. His exams are pretty straightforward, and he has no curveballs or tricks on them. He also really cares about our physical well-being and mental health, which is much appreciated. He is quite approachable, and will help you in any way that he can. I highly recommend him for Stats 10, as he is probably the best professor you could have for an intro statistics class. You will not regret taking this class with him.

Not sure who the hell is writing these reviews. Maybe this was an off summer for Tsiang, but the guy is not what he is made out to be by this bruinwalk page. People saying he's funny are saying that because every 30 or so minutes in his (painfully dull) 2 hour lectures, he says "aint nobody got time for that" and it wakes a portion of the class up. Maybe that is enough for the kind of people who write bruinwalk reviews to consider him funny. See, I accidentally missed the course evaluation deadline, so now I have to settle for a bruinwalk review in the hopes that it finds whoever tracks the progress of junior lecturers. One positive for Tsiang is that he gives great life advice before tests. He reminds students that mental health, sleep, and overall well-being is far more important than any grade. I respect his thoughts on this. That being said, his tests were still tough and required a lot of preparation. Also, anybody who says he is a "nice guy" or teaches with "good clarity" is either tripping or had a different teacher. This guy is far and above the most condescending teacher I have ever experienced. Though it is hard to tell whether he is robot or human from lecture, when you actually meet with this guy in person, you quickly realize that the attitude he puts out on Campuswire is true to he actually is. Campuswire is an online forum and part of the class is participating on it by asking and answering questions. If you somehow find the patience to rack up 50 upvotes on your responses, you can earn a whopping .5% of extra credit. I swear to you, on every singly discussion topic you click, you can find a condescending response from Tsiang, shaming the person for asking, and completely dodging the task of actually answering the question posed. He manages to consistently leave you guessing in confusion, putting a roundabout bullshit response to any and everyone who dare ask for help on the website. Take this review as one angry review from a kid who you think got a bad grade, or take this as a collective effort by 12 csesh students who all got A's and B's, but were shocked by how misleading the teacher's bruinwalk page was. Tsiang - get over yourself, stop your Parks and Rec references and learn to teach.

I put off taking stats for as long as I could during my UCLA career just because I had no interest in the material. Nevertheless, I tried to go in with an open mind. Unfortunately, Tsiang did not help this situation. For 2 hours, you basically sit and listen to him read from slides verbatim. It was borderline painful some mornings. Again, maybe this is because I just didn't find the material interesting or maybe it was just presented in a really boring way. In terms of the class, the tests are all multiple choice and you get a cheat sheet, but they are still pretty tricky. Best advice is to look at the conceptual multiple choice from the textbook chapters (he steals questions from here). There are twice weekly discussions, but in one per week the TAs go over the weekly labs and basically give you the answers which is nice. The other discussion per week is spent going over example problems. Each week you have homework which definitely takes a while to complete and is graded on accuracy which is just annoying. Although he gives some extra credit opportunities, it is for a very low level (1% max of final grade). Lastly, I agree with the previous poster about the CampusWire arrogance. Although I think what he was trying to do was get students to think about the concepts and come up with the answers themselves, he does this in a very poor and rude manner. BUT he is super responsive on there which I guess is good. (Also, please stop the "ain't nobody got time for that" jokes... they are beyond cringe worthy after week 1).

Professor Tsiang is one of the nicest and most understanding professors I've had at UCLA. He genuinely cares about his students' wellbeing and whether or not they understand the material. There are suggested homework assignments, but they are not required and automatically everyone gets 100% in homework (which is worth 5% of the grade). There are 10 online quizzes, 5 labs (1 due every two weeks) and a final. For each of the midterms you get one 8.5"x11" front and back page of notes and for the final you get three 8.5"x11" front and back pages of notes. This was my first statistics course I've ever taken and I felt like I was able to learn a lot and at the same time didn't feel like I was stressing over my grade, which I believe was his intention. I recommend this class and professor to anyone who loves or hates math or just needs to fulfill a requirement!

Professor Tsiang is honestly one of the best, if not THE best professor I've had at UCLA. I've never taken the time to write a review about any professor before, but Tsiang truly cares that his students understand the material and do well in the course. He specifically said at the beginning of the course, "If everyone does well in this class, everyone will get A's. There is no curving down." He also cares so much about the mental health of his students so it is a very refreshing environment compared to other classes. I HIGHLYYY recommend taking his class if you can

Terrible class, insane workload for each homework and the final project, unreasonable deadlines on homework, terribly designed midterms and final (they were unfinishable for the vast majority of students), and TA Jake Kramer was very rude, unhelpful, and made you EXTREMELY uncomfortable with asking questions. Campuswire is filled with his snarky, rude comments to questions. Mike's a little bit more approachable.

I did learn a lot about R programming. But I don't think the emotional abuse from the heavy workload was necessary.

Avoid this class if possible. I know many of my friends are considering dropping a stats minor because of this class, which is what the Stats department wants I suppose. Not cool.

MIKE IS THE GREATEST PROFESSOR AT UCLA! He is so so sweet and funny for a stats teacher! Seriously, if you have to take stats, do not take it without Mike. He uses Parks and Rec references in like every problem. He also believes that your mental health should not be sacrificed for grades. He leads you in breathing exercises before every test. The tests aren't that hard because he gives you a cheat sheet and thorough practice problems!

I highly recommend stats 10 with professor tsiang! He was extremely helpful, I wanted to take stats 10 but it was hard to get it to work with my schedule, as the only open lecture conflicted with another class. He let me enroll in one stats lecture and attend another, and worked with me for the exams! Lectures are also all podcasted so I didn't really have to go to lecture.

He is also a very clear teacher, the curve can only help you, and it is really clear he only wants you to do well in his class. The tests are all multiple choice, and though you should definitely study, they are not very difficult. The labs are also very easy but you HAVE to go to section, because the TA pretty much tells you how to do every question and the answers. Ended the class with an A+!

The only negative thing I have to say is he is pretty intimidating up close/ in office hours.

Though I took Stats 20 in fall quarter, bruinwalk does not have a page for that course and REALLY want to write a review here.

I am a freshman stats major and this is the first major course I took in UCLA, and I feel SO lucky that I took it with Mike! He genuinely cares about students and is very very approachable. Courses are clear and he posts pdf notes online for each lecture. Also, his classes are almost all videotaped so that we can easily review later( which also means do not have to go to lectures!!) No attendance taken, midterms and finals are all multiple choices, not too hard, workload is light, weekly homework that is 30% of final score and TAs almost give out answers during discussion sessions. DEFINITELY take Stats courses with Mike!!!!!

BTW I also went to some of Mike's Stats 10 class to review ap stats. I think if you took ap stats before, stats 10 can be an easy A!!

The assignments were extremely time consuming AND quite difficult- even for someone with significant programming experience outside of R. However- they were so satisfying to complete, and taught me so much that I couldn't get from reading notes or a textbook.