Took this class online with Professor Roberts during spring 2021 and it was pretty straightforward. You have weekly coursekatas that are due weekly before lecture and 4 quizzes throughout the quarter (plus a final). The quizzes were pretty easy and sometimes we were allowed test corrections. The workload is kinda alot. Seems like a lot of busy work and stuff to remember, but in all honesty it was very easy. Professor Roberts is very understanding and cool.

This class is pretty interesting and Roberts is a really nice and funny dude. I definitely wouldn't recommend this class if you don't have a basic understanding of economics though (think Macro and/or Micro). My problem with this class is the amount of work Roberts assigns, and it's mostly busy work in my opinion. He assigns two reading quizzes per week and either a homework assignment or research report every week. The quizzes are online and open notes/book and untimed, so they are relatively easy but it can be time consuming. The research assignments were pretty easy in my opinion and graded fairly. The homework assignments are the most challenging and can vary in difficulty with some being pretty simple and some more complex.

As far as lectures go, Roberts uses PollEverywhere to grade participation, which is a really fair way to do it because a lot of people don't feel comfortable speaking in front of the class. But Roberts talks FAST. And he covers a LOT of material each lecture. I'm a transfer coming from a semester system and I feel like this class would be much better suited to that. Roberts often ran out of time and rushed through things so that I was pretty confused about the material. Also, the midterm was pretty difficult and the class average was a C. However, Roberts took the class feedback and curved it GENEROUSLY and made our final a bit easier. He's a really nice dude and if you stay on top of the homework, take good notes, and go to office hours, it's not impossible to do well in the class. I did well on all of the quizzes and homework, but the midterm and final got me an A- in the end.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS! Even though the content itself was super interesting, I find the grading policy to be extremely unfair. Prof Roberts guarantees that your final paper grade would be an increase from your initially selected research project, but that was not the case. I dropped a whole letter grade because of it, and kept making mistakes with the grading policy making everyone believe they were in a better position than they initially thought. The workload is pretty rough too.

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 won't bash Professor Roberts because he really is a good guy. Go to his office hours if you have questions and he'll give you the help you need. It's just that the class is pretty exhausting, I wouldn't recommend taking it as an entry upper div like I did. I will concede that this will prepare you for harder classes in the future, and the course material really is interesting. Just make sure you're good at reading a lot and studying even more for the exams. The paper wasn't all that bad either, collaboration was optional. I'd take the class again, just be prepared for a real hard few months.

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.

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!