Pretty simple class - and a really good introduction to R for a beginner beginner. Lectures were really clear and slides were always posted. Office Hours were very frequent and helpful to my understanding and My TA was really helpful for homework questions and really attentive, making worksheets to do in discussion about topics we were confused on. Midterm was fair, but had some tricky parts if you don't actually understand content. The final is a group project and pretty open ended for what dataset you analyze and model. Overall, would definitely take again!!

Miles is one of the best professors at UCLA. This class was extremely useful and very manageable. He is a very engaging lecturer who cares deeply about his students. The finals are a bit rough, but he curves and adjusts grades so that it doesn't really matter in the end. 10/10 would recommend. Take this class, you will not regret it!

So far my favorite professor, full of passion for teaching stats. He is mainly a lecturer, so he focuses on teaching rather than research, which I suppose leads to a very enjoyable classroom environment and teaching style. He teaches course material in detail but explains concepts clearly and makes use of many examples in his slides so the class stays engaging. Also, he posts all of his lectures after class, super helpful. What I love the most is the opportunity to conduct a group project, he provided us more than enough time so our group was able to compose a very thorough research project.

I actually don't recommend him. All of his reviews say he's really good but honestly he has way too many slides and goes over them super quick within 50 minutes. His homeworks are extremely hard for no reason and none of them are dropped. Does not curve either.

Such a fun class! Although the lectures are at 9 am and mandatory, they are so engaging and fun and you feel like you are learning. He requires lecture view quizzes, where he tells you 3 arbitrary letters throughout the lecture so that you can just answer the quiz on BruinLearn after. Luckily, he records lectures but you will only get 2/3 of the letters but it won't really affect your score. His homework is nicely paced and he requries you to participate on CampusWire which is nice as someone is always online to answer your questions. No midterm!! And the final was online, idk if it was cause of the protests, and really fair. 10/10 would take again!

Miles is definitely one of my favorite professors at UCLA! The lectures are clearly delivered and engaging as always, and what we are expected to learn and to be tested on are clear as well. Also, Miles is always very nice and patient, I can tell he cares about his students and is always willing to help. I enjoyed taking classes with him so much, and would definitely recommend his classes to everyone. It was a very great experience, and I think I have learned useful knowledge which would help my future studies and career as well as gotten many invaluable life advices from him.

This is probably my favorite class that I took at UCLA so far. Prof Chen has amazing notes and a very fair grading scheme. His homework is often kind of long but very manageable and useful. The final is worth only 25% of your grade and is a tad bit tough but as long as you do well on everything else, it is very manageable to get an A. Prof Chen is a goat!

Great class. Good professor, though slightly overrated in my opinion (but I'd definitely take him again lol). Odd tests.
This is basically a ML class (less intensive maybe as CS). He uses his slides and explains well. He records it too.
We learn the standard algos like KNN, K means, Neural nets, EM algorithm, Bayes classifier, SVM, PCA and their math behind it. He teaches the concepts well and makes it extremely concise (dims it down to make it simple to understand, maybe too simple).
His homeworks are heavily weighted, so make sure to finish them well. 6 of them, each being 6%. The view quiz this quarter changed such that he'd provide the last one after the recording stopped to incentivize people to come in person.
The tests are pretty weird. They are easy and seem like high school style. The thing is he doesn't give much partial credit at all. And since the style is like high school, some questions about machine learning and long math calculations are all for a fill-in-the-blank. And so even with your work, you can end up getting 0. So double check your work.

Goat Chen Goat Chen! Good luck on the poker homework though.

Miles Chen is a fantastic instructor through and through, I couldn't reccomend him enough! One of his greatest strengths is course development.