Professor Tysons is the most disorganized and rushed lecturer poli sci professor I've experienced and this class was in general very poorly taught and structured. I actually found the material being taught pretty easy, but that's in part due to me having a background in econ and also because I know how this man teaches. He bases all his midterms and quizzes on the textbook, so you'll honestly have a better time just taking very detailed notes from the textbook instead of trying to pay attention to his rambles he calls lectures. It shouldn't be too difficult to succeed in this class if you just keep up with the readings and reading quizzes. The workload is also massive for this class, so be prepared for that. The midterm and final are tough because there's limited time but as I said, as long as you keep up with the readings you should be fine.

Overall I really enjoyed this class and Tyson as well. He clearly cares about what he's teaching. Lectures are based off of academic readings. The readings are dense, but its easy to skim them and get the main ideas without reading the whole thing. The midterm and final are also based on the readings, so not falling behind is super important. Pretty easy GE that requires low effort amounts of work.

This class wasn't too bad overall. The only thing that sucked about this class was that he gave out a lot of homework and that burnt me out pretty early on. The homework isn't too difficult either, it's just reading and completing activities through CourseKata but it can be a lot and feel tedious at times. Professor is also generous with grading. Homework is graded based on completion and you also earn participation credit by completing weekly Jupyter notebooks, which provides a nice boost to your grade. He also offers extra credit at the beginning and end of the quarter. He also has two grading schemes, one of them counts homework and participation as 35% of your grade!

With exams, we had no midterms just 4 quizzes (2 of them were take home quizzes) and an optional final. His quizzes are similar to the weekly Jupyter notebooks so if you understand those, you should be fine. He also had quizzes/tests be open note just in case you forget a command.

Overall Professor Roberts and the TAs were cool and understanding and really took in student feedback (and actually listened to it). This is a good class to take if you want to explore data analytics but I wouldn't recommend taking this class if you're already taking on a heavy courseload because there's times where this class can overwhelming. I personally came out of this being more interested in a career in data analytics even though I'm a north campus major and don't really like numbers

Professor Roberts is by far BY FARRR the best professor I've had at UCLA. I took him for ps 30 and ps 169-authoritarian regimes. His classes do require a lot, a lottttt, of work, but they are graded very easily. He provides numerous extra credit opportunities and is a very fair teacher. To be honest, at times the amount of work did bother me, but I feel like I know as much as I do about the class without cramming because of those assignments. I would definitely take this professor if you get the chance

This class was kind of a train wreck organizationally and logistically speaking, but I didn't think it was bad overall. Professor Roberts came up with two different ways to calculate the final grade, one more homework/participation based, and one more test based. The weekly homework from the textbooks took FOREVER but it was very useful because that's where I learned the bulk of the material- not from lecture. I felt like lectures were kind of pointless because we just worked on these in-class coding worksheets as a group, but he moved SO SLOWLY and we never finished a whole worksheet. I'd recommend just completing them with your TA or on your own time, since lecture attendance isn't mandatory. There were four quizzes that were the majority of the final grade. The quizzes were extremely similar to the in-class worksheets so just make sure you complete those (after each worksheet is due, Prof. Roberts would post the answers so if you go back and check your answers, you're set). I think people just struggled with timing because the quizzes were LONG af. He drops your lowest quiz score AND he even offered a re-do for one of the quizzes that everyone bombed. Finally, he made the final optional at the request of the students, so he's super understanding and chill.

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.

Might be a little difficult for students who've never taken statistics or coding before, but all of the assignments, quizzes, and exams heavily rely on the content in the interactive textbook, so as long as you read the textbook, you can basically self-teach yourself. During class professor goes over the Jupiter Notebooks, which are due at the end of class, but sometimes goes on tangents and doesn't finish on time. Quizzes and exams are open-book and notes, but you should still attempt to understand content beforehand because the textbook can sometimes be a little confusing. Professor is a friendly guy and is pretty good at explaining concepts so just go to office hours for help. The coding part is for a program called CourseKata, which isn't your normal coding program, so don't know if it'll really teach you important coding, but overall will gain a better understanding of data and how to analyze it in terms of political science.

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 thought that this class would be much different than it was. Be prepared to do most of your learning online as the lectures are online and in person meetings are just practice problems. Professor Roberts was especially helpful during office hours but be prepared to do a lot of work and studying for this class. He was funny and engaging during lectures, but I found the online portion to be overwhelming especially considering there are no TAs to ask immediate questions to.