Nate is a great instructor who has extensive industry experience in Data Science field. He also bring a few friends/ex-colleagues from previous work or UCLA Department of Statistics alumni. His class note and slides are very clear and useful. The entire coursework/projects are hands on experience what he have learn from his 10+ years of industry not heavily focus on R and theoretical but I would easy this is more practical learning experience.
The class projects could be rigor depending on the subject of your choice. The requirement is simply implement a web API service using LLM. (i.e. OpenAI API, Huggingface, or Langchain) I highly recommend whomever in the field or who wants to be in DS.