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.

I really enjoyed this class! He's so unserious and funny. I learned actually so much from this class though. I think you shouldn't be worried about the workload, as it's simple and there's so much that it all acts as a grade buffer. Also, the homework and in class quizzes all come up sporadically on the exams, which is nice. The group project is also pretty straightfoward and you work on it throughout the whole quarter.

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.

Disregard all other reviews. Yes, there is a lot of reading (but it's relatively interesting). Yes, attendence matters and there are in-class quizzes (but it's not that hard to come to class and the quizzes are like 0.01% of your grade). Yes, there is a lot of homework (it's really not that hard). Yes, there is a group project and 2 exams (you complete the project slowly throughout the whole quarter and the exams take from the quizzes). There is so much grade-buffing from all the activites throughout the quarter and the material is actually really interesting. Out of all the UCLA classes and professsors, I genuinely recommend this class. This guy is so funny and his 151 classes are fantastic.

Professor Tyson Roberts almost always went 5-10 minutes over time in class since we had to finish the assigned Jupiter Notebook in lecture to get credit, but he would consistently take too long to go over answers and was bad at pacing things. That being said, the content itself is not horrible since it's basically intro to R which isn't too bad, but the homework takes a solid chunk of your time outside of class as you go through multiple chapters practicing and learning the coding (also to get credit). If you know you'll be able to time manage enough and put effort into actually learning and understanding the content for the quizzes and final then it's not too bad.

Class was pretty easy, work was very manageable, midterm was retread of the quizzes. Easy recommend.

This class is pretty easy if you want to get your math GE out of the way without actually taking a super math-y class. I didn't know going into it that it would be a coding class (that was probably on me), but when I found out I got super scared because I am not tech savvy at all. I wouldn't worry if that's you though because all the content was VERY introductory and didn't go too far into calculations or complicated code at all. The whole point of the class is to learn how to read data from political studies and things of that sort, which is actually pretty interesting if you're into that stuff. Other than that, the classroom is flipped so you are expected to learn everything from the textbook before lecture and then he goes through an online worksheet and basically gives you all the answers during lecture and that's it. There are 4 quizzes and a final throughout the course which are open note and pretty easy if you stay caught up with the textbook. Optional discussion sessions but you should go to at least 3 or 4 for credit. Professor Roberts is great! He probably knows everyone is trying to get a GE out of the way and is very understanding of that and funny at times. Overall a great GE, I wouldn't take again, but that's just because I hate anything having to do with STEM

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.

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.