Great professor and relatively easy class. The homework and lab are busy work but it isn't too much work, especially because some of the labs are bi-weekly. Tsiang is a great professor and if you love Parks n Rec, you have to take this class.

Best statistics professor in UCLA. Wish he taught more upper divs. Even if you're not intending to major in stats, take this class as a GE. He allows cheat sheet for midterm and final.

Material is completely new to me. The professor made it fun to learn R. Take Junhyung Park as your TA if you can.

Not sure who the hell is writing these reviews. Maybe this was an off summer for Tsiang, but the guy is not what he is made out to be by this bruinwalk page. People saying he's funny are saying that because every 30 or so minutes in his (painfully dull) 2 hour lectures, he says "aint nobody got time for that" and it wakes a portion of the class up. Maybe that is enough for the kind of people who write bruinwalk reviews to consider him funny. See, I accidentally missed the course evaluation deadline, so now I have to settle for a bruinwalk review in the hopes that it finds whoever tracks the progress of junior lecturers. One positive for Tsiang is that he gives great life advice before tests. He reminds students that mental health, sleep, and overall well-being is far more important than any grade. I respect his thoughts on this. That being said, his tests were still tough and required a lot of preparation. Also, anybody who says he is a "nice guy" or teaches with "good clarity" is either tripping or had a different teacher. This guy is far and above the most condescending teacher I have ever experienced. Though it is hard to tell whether he is robot or human from lecture, when you actually meet with this guy in person, you quickly realize that the attitude he puts out on Campuswire is true to he actually is. Campuswire is an online forum and part of the class is participating on it by asking and answering questions. If you somehow find the patience to rack up 50 upvotes on your responses, you can earn a whopping .5% of extra credit. I swear to you, on every singly discussion topic you click, you can find a condescending response from Tsiang, shaming the person for asking, and completely dodging the task of actually answering the question posed. He manages to consistently leave you guessing in confusion, putting a roundabout bullshit response to any and everyone who dare ask for help on the website. Take this review as one angry review from a kid who you think got a bad grade, or take this as a collective effort by 12 csesh students who all got A's and B's, but were shocked by how misleading the teacher's bruinwalk page was. Tsiang - get over yourself, stop your Parks and Rec references and learn to teach.

I put off taking stats for as long as I could during my UCLA career just because I had no interest in the material. Nevertheless, I tried to go in with an open mind. Unfortunately, Tsiang did not help this situation. For 2 hours, you basically sit and listen to him read from slides verbatim. It was borderline painful some mornings. Again, maybe this is because I just didn't find the material interesting or maybe it was just presented in a really boring way. In terms of the class, the tests are all multiple choice and you get a cheat sheet, but they are still pretty tricky. Best advice is to look at the conceptual multiple choice from the textbook chapters (he steals questions from here). There are twice weekly discussions, but in one per week the TAs go over the weekly labs and basically give you the answers which is nice. The other discussion per week is spent going over example problems. Each week you have homework which definitely takes a while to complete and is graded on accuracy which is just annoying. Although he gives some extra credit opportunities, it is for a very low level (1% max of final grade). Lastly, I agree with the previous poster about the CampusWire arrogance. Although I think what he was trying to do was get students to think about the concepts and come up with the answers themselves, he does this in a very poor and rude manner. BUT he is super responsive on there which I guess is good. (Also, please stop the "ain't nobody got time for that" jokes... they are beyond cringe worthy after week 1).

Professor Tsiang, or Mike, is AMAZING! Although I only took STATS 10 as a GE, it was one of the best classes that I've taken at UCLA. Not only is he super clear with his explanations, he's also very funny. He's very eager to help you out and excited to teach. 10/10 would recommend!!!

This class was amazing!!!! I definitely recommend having Tsiang for Stats 10. He really cares about his students and will help you if you go to office hours. His tests are fair and the labs are easy but sometimes take a lot of time. Tsiang himself is such a relatable and passionate guy who really tries his best to make stats an interesting subject.

Terrible class, insane workload for each homework and the final project, unreasonable deadlines on homework, terribly designed midterms and final (they were unfinishable for the vast majority of students), and TA Jake Kramer was very rude, unhelpful, and made you EXTREMELY uncomfortable with asking questions. Campuswire is filled with his snarky, rude comments to questions. Mike's a little bit more approachable.

I did learn a lot about R programming. But I don't think the emotional abuse from the heavy workload was necessary.

Avoid this class if possible. I know many of my friends are considering dropping a stats minor because of this class, which is what the Stats department wants I suppose. Not cool.

If you have the chance to take him for Stats, do it! He's a great teacher and his tests were straight forward and all multiple choice. He gave a lot of extra credit. One lab was completely extra credit. The final had 42 questions but was only graded out of 40. One of the online quizzes had 11 questions but was graded out of 9. Getting an A in this class is extremely doable. The labs were a bit annoying, but the TA's basically give you all the code you need for it. Not a hard class, great to take with other challenging courses.

I'm going to start this by stating that I got straight c+'s in physics. I'm great in bio, I get by in chem, but math (and yes I know physics is both a science and a mathematics, but to me it's MATH) is difficult for me. I came into this class wholly expecting to cry and struggle over it just like I did in physics. But I didn't. I got an A. And I truly believe that was due to Tsiang. He is so sweet, so understanding, and really wants his students to do well. He was willing to work with me on anything I struggled with and I really felt welcomed to ask him questions. He also makes awesome Parks & Rec references. If you do the homework and seek help in this class, you will do great - if you take it with Tsiang. 10/10 recommend.