This class is fine. The exams weren't too hard, the homework load was fine. Homework was so light at the beginning and then became very time consuming at the end. The class for me was easy in the beginning(with combinatorics and stuff) but at the end it got much more complicated. The lectures are good and the professor aims to connect the material to real life applications with example problems which is good. Handwriting on the notes is sometimes hard to read, but just ask the professor if you don't know what she wrote and she'll tell you. The project is fine, but try to start on it early and ask lots of questions about instructions if you are unsure.

One of the best professors I've had at UCLA. Explained things from first principles in a very approachable way, navigated through rigorous course content in a passionate way. Clearly cared a lot about student learning, and often times stopped lecture to reinforce a topic she believed needed more emphasis. Clear exams and well structured lectures. Homework assignments were occasionally tedious and time consuming, but covered course concepts effectively. Only weakness is sometimes using whiteboard markers running out of ink that aren't easy to see on the board. Would recommend, especially since I hear other (easier) courses that fulfill the stats requirement for CS majors have recently been suffering from bad professors.

Lecture audio is recorded. It's a relatively chill and slow-paced, so it's a good intro class. HWs can be a bit tedious, projects were fun, and the final exam is very easy. It's a fun class to take.

This is my second class taken with Dolecek, and it was pretty easy in my opinion, but I still enjoyed the topics a lot. It certainly helped that the TA's left solutions from the previous quarter up for the first two weeks LOL. There is only one exam (final) and its only worth 20% of the grade, but the median was still very high at 97%.

My only complaints about the class were that the recorded lectures were audio only (I never attended class), and that the TA's this quarter were extremely slow at doing ANYTHING, but overall I enjoy Dolecek's classes a lot!

Professor Dolecek has very engaging lectures and she challenges you just enough to make the class interesting and challenging but not overly challenging. Her tests were very fair and her homework were interesting. Although her rubric was a little harsh if you were trying to go for partial credit. Overall she was a very good professor in my opinion and this was my favourite class during the quarter

class is very approachable and projects are pretty handhold-y, so I had a good time. though if you plan on taking m146 and don't need the intro I'd say just take m146 and don't take this class (m146 encompasses all of m148)

In my opinion, Professor Dolecek is severely underrated on bruinwalk, and I definitely enjoyed her class the most this quarter.
Dolecek's lectures reminded me of those MIT open-class videos that I have seen on Youtube. She was very organized and explained the concepts pretty well. She always answered questions that people had and encouraged class participation. This is why even though her lectures were recorded, most people still preferred to show up in person. I think the biggest downside about her lectures was that she handwrote all her notes on the whiteboard and it could be hard to read sometimes. Regardless, you could always ask her to clarity what each symbol meant.
The exams were okay. I went over her past exams in the test bank, and I realized that her exams used to be a lot harder. Maybe that is why she has such bad reviews on bruinwalk. Anyway, our midterm and final were pretty well designed and similar to the HW, with maybe one or two questions that were kind of challenging/tricky. If you understand the HW, you should get at least a 90 on the exams. Be sure to check your answers though, we did not get to use a calculator during the exams and they did not grade our exams very nicely (you would lose a lot of points for making an algebraic error).
Some of the HW questions involved coding in matlab and there was a matlab project. I did not find coding in matlab particularly difficult with the help of the internet.