Professor
Christopher Wegemer
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Most Helpful Review
Winter 2025 - Wegemer is an extremely passionate and engaging lecturer! He encourages interaction and has a clear investment in the topic that makes even "boring" lectures feel at minimum digestible. Topics discussed often weave between some common sense understanding and technical/terminology heavy ways of investigating networks. Any math involved is very minimal and fairly intuitive. There are 6 homeworks over the course, some more intensive than others, a midterm, and a final. He provides plenty of study material for each and the TAs are extremely helpful as well ! great class especially as an often requisite course!!
Winter 2025 - Wegemer is an extremely passionate and engaging lecturer! He encourages interaction and has a clear investment in the topic that makes even "boring" lectures feel at minimum digestible. Topics discussed often weave between some common sense understanding and technical/terminology heavy ways of investigating networks. Any math involved is very minimal and fairly intuitive. There are 6 homeworks over the course, some more intensive than others, a midterm, and a final. He provides plenty of study material for each and the TAs are extremely helpful as well ! great class especially as an often requisite course!!
Most Helpful Review
Spring 2025 - Honestly? One of the best statistics professors I've had in my 4 years at UCLA. Dr. Wegemer is super passionate about what he teaches, provides (in my opinion) everything that you need to succeed in the class, and is very patient and approachable. The HWs were of a very reasonable length and focused on application of the exact concepts we learned in lecture. Unlike some stats professors I've had in the econ and stats departments, he does not test you on how fast you can mindlessly and manually do computations by hand. His tests focused on the intuition behind the concepts and were weighted fairly. A cool part of the class was developing our own survey items (based on our personal interests) and analyzing the responses we got from the class. I wasn't a soc major, but I believe the way he teaches is incredibly friendly to those with more of a social science/humanities background. Even if you're not a soc major but are just interested in applied stats + research in business, psychology, public health, etc., I'd highly recommend taking this class!
Spring 2025 - Honestly? One of the best statistics professors I've had in my 4 years at UCLA. Dr. Wegemer is super passionate about what he teaches, provides (in my opinion) everything that you need to succeed in the class, and is very patient and approachable. The HWs were of a very reasonable length and focused on application of the exact concepts we learned in lecture. Unlike some stats professors I've had in the econ and stats departments, he does not test you on how fast you can mindlessly and manually do computations by hand. His tests focused on the intuition behind the concepts and were weighted fairly. A cool part of the class was developing our own survey items (based on our personal interests) and analyzing the responses we got from the class. I wasn't a soc major, but I believe the way he teaches is incredibly friendly to those with more of a social science/humanities background. Even if you're not a soc major but are just interested in applied stats + research in business, psychology, public health, etc., I'd highly recommend taking this class!