Yo this class was brutal I mean absolutely brutal. We would have several things due in the span of a week. I can live with weekly quizzes, and the occasional writing assignment. But this guy would have us do a writing assignment every 10 days it seemed, with online quizzes and also quiz us in lecture on the quiz we just took! also his lecture skills absolute garbage. like his slides made no sense there wasnt a common sense way to follow along to take notes. We had Unit exams also known as problem sets plus a midterm and a final. OH MY GOD THE MIDTERM AND FINAL. Bro he showed up to the midterm TEN MINUTES LATE and refused to give us the extra time on it. like brother youre the reason why we dont have time. so then on to the final. he gives us examples of previous finals with INCORRECT answer sheets. Like what the actual fuck. With the final practices theres segments that require drawing and graphing, for my cheat sheet. Just to show up for the final and it is all multiple choice. I mean god damn it I could have added more notes in the space of my graphs.
Also he didnt fix grades that he said he was going to fix. which is why i got the C+. I had a 79.78. I sent an email saying something along the lines like "Hey i noticed my grade is reading at a C+ and there's a few things that havent been corrected and that can boost my grade to a B-. Which ya know is a big deal for my gpa." Just to see my final grade as a C+ like are you fucking kidding me. I cant even retake the class.

My overall issue is the sheer amount of information he was throwing at us and we didnt have a discussion section. Like if we had that then we probably would have been a lot better off. So yeah I don't like the guy.

I loved this class! I'm a Poli Sci major that really enjoys STEM and it teaches R in course kata. It's a lot of async work but I really enjoyed it. However, if you have to code in R in the future for stats it's not very applicable in R studio. Quizzes are just like the practice quizzes they give out. I'd recommend this class if you're interested in coding and need a pre req!

The concepts of this class are pretty challenging, even after finishing the class with an A- I still don't fully understand some of it. Roberts often had problems finishing the planned lecture material for the day, often resulting in him rushing through material. Lectures were often confusing and he includes pollev questions for your participation grade. The tests were pretty tough, but he does curve them. Additionally, the tests are not a huge portion of your grade. I would not want to take this class again, but it wasn't terrible.

Yes, the class is a reverse method but it’s coding. Easy as long as you don’t procrastinate and actually do the work. People are too dramatic; all exams are open notes and textbook so you’ll be fine.

Strengths: Dr. Roberts is one of the most interesting and personable professors I've had. I liked his enthusiasm and excitement. I enjoyed the podcasts and assigned readings. They were easy to digest and thought-provoking. The problem sets, and essays were a good way to work towards mastery. The grading system was excellent and accounted for the difficulty of the course. I liked the participation polls and felt they made the class more engaging. The problem sets did help prepare us for exams. I appreciate that he took time to hold labs after class.

Weaknesses: This course was very challenging. While the textbook and assigned readings were fine, the lectures failed to clarify complex topics. I think they were too fast, and large topics on exams were glazed over in lectures. Even in the lab, the explanation was a bit too fast-paced when asked to clarify. This class prioritized getting through the bulk of the textbook rather than deeper understanding/learning. The weekly quizzes did little to prepare us for exam questions. I would've liked more clear grading rubrics for participation and essays. The class was too fast and vague for the level of understanding needed to do well.

I had read bad reviews about this professor before taking this course and was a little worried but it all turned out okay. He was a relatively interesting lecturer, my main issue with him was how consistently he would talk past the time that class ended. He once talked for 15 minutes after the scheduled end of lecture and although we were free to leave at any time I knew I’d have to come back and watch the recording to learn the material anyways so I felt like I had to stay. I wish he respected our time more, but the content of the course was decent and I didn’t think that the exams were that hard. One thing I didn't like was the pollev quizzes in class which were graded, meaning that even if you attended you lose participation points for missing questions on in class online response questions. I think these should have been completion based. There were assignments due most weekends so this class kept me busy and was not easy but I didn’t find it hard to get a good grade considering I did all the assignments. Also he says that he has labs but they are really optional office hours. I never went.

Worst class and professor I have ever taken. DO NOT TAKE TYSON ROBERTS. He does not care about his students or the quality of education he is giving them. He miscalculated my attendance grade which dropped my overall grade by 10% at the end of the quarter. When I reached out to fix it, he never responded to me and never fixed my grade. Started the final exam by prefacing he would have to curve the test because he had written it poorly. The class following the midterm began with "what happened guys" because the average grade was so low as a direct result of poor teaching and exam writing. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS OR PROFESSOR.

While the professor had an attitude of genuine caring and encouragement of student learning, the course structure relied heavily on self-directed learning, utilizing an online textbook and homework assignments as the primary means of instruction. While the content itself was comprehensive, there was a noticeable lack of organization and clarity in how it was presented in lectures. Students often found themselves navigating the material independently, with limited guidance from the professor. However, the course was overall manageable, and the content was accessible and relevant to the subject matter. The assessment and coursework were also self-directed but allowed for a large amount of flexibility and was considerate of students. Overall, doable and a very reasonable option to satisfy the quant requirement - just expect it to be the type of class where you do most of your learning by yourself and only go to class/discussion if you need help or participation credit.

Class had a good weekly layout and I could easily navigate the materials through canvas. Class wasn't difficult, just time consuming, as long as you did readings and wrote good notes during the class lecture, you would be able to easily follow along with the topics and complete the assignments/quizzes. Professor also is very forgiving with the grading, he would drop the lowest grades in each category, quizzes, assignments, and problem sets. Midterms and final were multiple choice and were almost identical in terms of questions to the previous weekly quizzes/problem sets if you did them.

I tried to drop this class in the first week but I couldn't get off the waitlist anywhere else so unfortunately I had to take this class for the entire quarter.

Roberts absolutely sucks as a lecturer. He just kind of reads off of the slides, and when he does go on tangents they offer nothing of value to the class. I'm not even sure he actually knows the material. He was also supposed to be broadcasting the lectures on Zoom but he sometimes forgot and then still marked down people for not "participating" in lecture (when many couldn't participate because he didn't even start the Zoom).

For the midterm, he gave us a list of things to study, but then it felt like half of the things on the test weren't on the study guide. For the final, he didn't even bother and just said "study the entire course", which is completely useless.

The only positive thing I can say about this class is that the weekly workload, for the most part, isn't too bad. The readings are long but the actual weekly assignments are pretty brief.

The weekly assignments are short little research projects that only take around 30 minutes to complete every week. This builds up to a final research paper that was one of the most frustrating assignments I've ever had to take at UCLA. I came up to him multiple times to workshop my essay and get his input on things. He often offer suggestions that were either A) not actually mentioned in the course readings, or B) were completely counterfactual to the evidence presented in the course material. Every time I went to his office hours I ended up leaving more confused than when I originally went in.

If you can, do whatever you can to stay away from this class. I promise it's not worth your time.