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Zubin Jelveh INST414 Anonymous 10/03/2024	If you take this professor, you better pay attention in his class. He might randomly call on you and you’ll be set up for humiliation. This guy seems to really enjoy putting students on the spot and embarrassing them
Cody Buntain INST414 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/20/2024	Chill, reasonable guy who gets straight to the point with the course content. I enjoyed taking 414 with him. The content is high-level, but you will be allowed access to AI resources and will walk through the technicals in class.
Cody Buntain INST414 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/19/2024	The class wasn't too hard, and we could turn in projects late and still get full points. Using ChatGPT made the projects much easier to complete.
Cody Buntain INST414 Expecting an F Anonymous 02/02/2024	I got shoulder surgery at the end of the semester after it had its date changed closer unexpectedly, and I emailed him the day after I could lift my arm for the first time and this guy didn't accept two of my projects that said "no due date". Even though turned them in before the end of the semester, and this caused my grade to go from a 78 to failing when the quality of the projects were certainly high enough that I should have at least finished with a B. If you don't believe me, I'll back it up. Here's the two projects. (There was max word limits and I hit them) https://medium.com/@crydel2/clustering-powerlifters-best-lifts-based-on-their-euclidian-distance-849a1c4cbe13 AND https://medium.com/@crydel2/ranking-real-estate-properties-for-similarity-239271d1e1b8 if you're reading this cody, there was no need to be so rude I was obviously under stress from the surgery, and I learned more from your class than half your students as they couldn't even answer your in class questions correctly.
Cody Buntain INST414 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/05/2024	For the main medium posts you’ll definitely need assistance whether it’s using AI or going to office hours because in my experience these took the longest to get done. You get extensions on the medium assignments but for in class exercises, quizzes and semester project deliverables it’s a strict due date but it’s pretty fair in my opinion since the exercises and quizzes can be done in class and the project is spread out through the semester and each deliverable isn’t too much work. Just to note, a lot of the content of this course is geared towards understanding the principles pertaining to the data science career field. You'll learn various principles, methods, and techniques of data science, and be taught to understand the use cases of these concepts. Code examples are also provided in order to get a better understanding of these concepts and help you with the in-class exercises.
Zubin Jelveh INST414 Expecting an A+ pfilardi 12/29/2023	This was my favorite class of the semester. The professor is always kind, helpful, and creates a good environment in the classroom. His explanations can be convoluted at times, but the professor is always open to questions and makes an effort to reiterate difficult topics. I appreciate how he keeps assignment expectations clear and wants his students to succeed in the course.
Wei Ai INST414 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/13/2023	Professor Ai is very knowledgeable and understanding. The class structure was pretty straightforward - an assignment every week and 2 larger projects. However, I found the format of the class exhausting. Attending a 3hr lecture with material that was not too 'engaging' became extremely difficult. At one point only 7-10 people would attend class (50 people signed up for this class), but I think that's on the iSchool rather than Professor Ai who really did try his best to make the class engaging. The assignments take about 1-2 hours every week and the 2 projects are pretty exhaustive in being able to apply class concepts - no group projects though. If you want to take INST414, I'd suggest taking it with Professor Ai but perhaps not a 3hr lecture.
Cody Buntain INST414 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/27/2023	He lets you use AI for the module assignments. The in-class exercises were difficult and I rarely completed them in class, but they were mostly graded for completion. Felt like a lot of the content went over my head. Not too hard to get a high grade.
Cody Buntain INST414 Anonymous 11/02/2023	The professor is knowledgable but expects us to do grad work. Please don't take the class.
William Farmer INST414 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 05/13/2023	At the moment this professor seems genuinely seems busy with all the things going on in his life. Which is fine but that comes at a cost to his courses. This course is likely terrific if you already know all of the concepts and ideas that he asks for in assignments and exams. However, if you remotely struggle in this course there are very few resources available to you and it's extremely difficult to get in contact with the professor. Even when you do you frequently have to follow up in order to get any form of help. This problem is only made worse since this semester the TA while being a great person didn't give a lot of help in the sometimes vague questions or when you were genuinely stuck. This professor is best suited for students who require minimal help to understand data science and can quickly finish assignments since due dates aren't consistent.
William Farmer INST414 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 05/08/2023	Please DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH THIS MAN. He taught us nothing at all, did not explain anything and never showed up to his own office hours. He never reschedules the things he cancels, does not give you enough time to complete his vague assignments, and somehow expects you to get it. He does not publish any information and lectures until after we needed it, which it practically useless. The class discord what a wreck and he never gets around to anything. Please if you value your GPA, your time, and your sanity, don't bother with this class.
William Farmer INST414 Anonymous 04/06/2023	If you want a professor who holds office hours, communicates with students, does things on time, or explains things, DO NOT TAKE INST414 with him. He would regularly cancel office hours and tell us he's rescheduling but never reschedule. He told us he'd hold an additional weekly review for us, but never held any. He would publish lecture videos and assignments at the last minute. He also promised us that he would have review videos before each assignment, but they were published after the assignments. The overall communication is just poor. He is slow to respond in the class Discord and via email.
Zubin Jelveh INST414 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/21/2023	Professor is very nice and makes an effort to help students. He’s very smart just a little disorganized and not the best at explaining concepts.
David Patrick INST414 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/30/2022	The course isn't hard-- exams and quizzes are super easy (I mean super easy) and open book, note, internet. But this class was very disorganized. Oftentimes I would take the quizzes and some of the questions would be marked wrong when they were right. The professor did correct this after I emailed but this happened a lot and honestly the whole course felt sloppily put together. All of the homework was just textbook exercises and the readings were the textbook and YouTube videos. The exams and quizzes were just questions that we the students made for our reading assignments. That's right-- the professor didn't have any original materials in this course. I don't think a professor should be expected to write all notes and homework entirely from scratch but here Patrick was really just a grader, not really a professor. I could have done all of this on my own and taken a different elective instead. Oh, also another thing-- our syllabus listed that we would learn about SVMs, logistic regression, neural networks, and a few other things, but so far we have not touched on this at all in the readings or assignments. I would take him if you just want the grade but if you want to learn and be challenged (and feel like you're actually taking a class...) take another professor.
Naghmeh Momeni INST414 Anonymous 10/24/2021	Do not take this class with this professor. It is completely unorganized (she didn't release the syllabus until halfway through the first week and told us no assignments would be assigned until after add/drop... which I should have been suspicious of). She also never responds to emails and only hosts office hours by appointment only (but that might as well be no office hours since she doesn't reply to emails). Never sends out announcements or emails nor answers the questions posted in the Campuswire that she said would be the primary source for getting answered. She posts lectures/content whenever she wants; the class is poorly structured and she expects we'll just make time for it somehow as if this is the only class we have. Lectures are poor and barely help with the quizzes. She's hard to hear/understand and always have screaming children in the back of her videos. As a straight A student, this class with her is the absolute worse.
Babak Fotouhi INST414 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 07/21/2021	Absolutely solid professor. Took this class during the summer semester (online), and he posted ~3hrs of lectures per week. He grades super lightly, but the grading criteria is vague and he doesn't seem to provide any feedback for improvements. Gave lots of extra credit. I would 100% take him again.
Aditya Ravindra Bhat INST414 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/16/2020	Professor Aditya knows his material and know-how to teach a class. He does live coding and walk through step by step if you get stuck. He's very helpful and knows that everyone in his class learning and understanding the Data Science concepts. He's the best professor for INST 414.
Aditya Ravindra Bhat INST414 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/18/2019	Makes himself available to help. A little hard to understand in lecture, but go to office hours and you’ll be fine.
Aditya Ravindra Bhat INST414 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/18/2019	Adi is a great guy and definitely knows what he is talking about. Despite being the first time he taught a class as an instructor, he still did well in conveying concepts and answering questions. He is a kind and lenient person that is willing to help whenever reached out to. As long as you are willing to show an interest, he will do anything he can to assist you.

Zubin Jelveh
INST414

Anonymous
10/03/2024

If you take this professor, you better pay attention in his class. He might randomly call on you and you’ll be set up for humiliation. This guy seems to really enjoy putting students on the spot and embarrassing them

Cody Buntain
INST414

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/20/2024

Chill, reasonable guy who gets straight to the point with the course content. I enjoyed taking 414 with him. The content is high-level, but you will be allowed access to AI resources and will walk through the technicals in class.

Cody Buntain
INST414

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/19/2024

The class wasn't too hard, and we could turn in projects late and still get full points. Using ChatGPT made the projects much easier to complete.

Cody Buntain
INST414

Expecting an F
Anonymous
02/02/2024

I got shoulder surgery at the end of the semester after it had its date changed closer unexpectedly, and I emailed him the day after I could lift my arm for the first time and this guy didn't accept two of my projects that said "no due date". Even though turned them in before the end of the semester, and this caused my grade to go from a 78 to failing when the quality of the projects were certainly high enough that I should have at least finished with a B. If you don't believe me, I'll back it up. Here's the two projects. (There was max word limits and I hit them) https://medium.com/@crydel2/clustering-powerlifters-best-lifts-based-on-their-euclidian-distance-849a1c4cbe13 AND https://medium.com/@crydel2/ranking-real-estate-properties-for-similarity-239271d1e1b8 if you're reading this cody, there was no need to be so rude I was obviously under stress from the surgery, and I learned more from your class than half your students as they couldn't even answer your in class questions correctly.

Cody Buntain
INST414

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/05/2024

For the main medium posts you’ll definitely need assistance whether it’s using AI or going to office hours because in my experience these took the longest to get done. You get extensions on the medium assignments but for in class exercises, quizzes and semester project deliverables it’s a strict due date but it’s pretty fair in my opinion since the exercises and quizzes can be done in class and the project is spread out through the semester and each deliverable isn’t too much work. Just to note, a lot of the content of this course is geared towards understanding the principles pertaining to the data science career field. You'll learn various principles, methods, and techniques of data science, and be taught to understand the use cases of these concepts. Code examples are also provided in order to get a better understanding of these concepts and help you with the in-class exercises.

Zubin Jelveh
INST414

Expecting an A+
pfilardi
12/29/2023

This was my favorite class of the semester. The professor is always kind, helpful, and creates a good environment in the classroom. His explanations can be convoluted at times, but the professor is always open to questions and makes an effort to reiterate difficult topics. I appreciate how he keeps assignment expectations clear and wants his students to succeed in the course.

Wei Ai
INST414

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/13/2023

Professor Ai is very knowledgeable and understanding. The class structure was pretty straightforward - an assignment every week and 2 larger projects. However, I found the format of the class exhausting. Attending a 3hr lecture with material that was not too 'engaging' became extremely difficult. At one point only 7-10 people would attend class (50 people signed up for this class), but I think that's on the iSchool rather than Professor Ai who really did try his best to make the class engaging. The assignments take about 1-2 hours every week and the 2 projects are pretty exhaustive in being able to apply class concepts - no group projects though. If you want to take INST414, I'd suggest taking it with Professor Ai but perhaps not a 3hr lecture.

Cody Buntain
INST414

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/27/2023

He lets you use AI for the module assignments. The in-class exercises were difficult and I rarely completed them in class, but they were mostly graded for completion. Felt like a lot of the content went over my head. Not too hard to get a high grade.

Cody Buntain
INST414

Anonymous
11/02/2023

The professor is knowledgable but expects us to do grad work. Please don't take the class.

William Farmer
INST414

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
05/13/2023

At the moment this professor seems genuinely seems busy with all the things going on in his life. Which is fine but that comes at a cost to his courses. This course is likely terrific if you already know all of the concepts and ideas that he asks for in assignments and exams. However, if you remotely struggle in this course there are very few resources available to you and it's extremely difficult to get in contact with the professor. Even when you do you frequently have to follow up in order to get any form of help. This problem is only made worse since this semester the TA while being a great person didn't give a lot of help in the sometimes vague questions or when you were genuinely stuck. This professor is best suited for students who require minimal help to understand data science and can quickly finish assignments since due dates aren't consistent.

William Farmer
INST414

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
05/08/2023

Please DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH THIS MAN. He taught us nothing at all, did not explain anything and never showed up to his own office hours. He never reschedules the things he cancels, does not give you enough time to complete his vague assignments, and somehow expects you to get it. He does not publish any information and lectures until after we needed it, which it practically useless. The class discord what a wreck and he never gets around to anything. Please if you value your GPA, your time, and your sanity, don't bother with this class.

William Farmer
INST414

Anonymous
04/06/2023

If you want a professor who holds office hours, communicates with students, does things on time, or explains things, DO NOT TAKE INST414 with him. He would regularly cancel office hours and tell us he's rescheduling but never reschedule. He told us he'd hold an additional weekly review for us, but never held any. He would publish lecture videos and assignments at the last minute. He also promised us that he would have review videos before each assignment, but they were published after the assignments. The overall communication is just poor. He is slow to respond in the class Discord and via email.

Zubin Jelveh
INST414

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/21/2023

Professor is very nice and makes an effort to help students. He’s very smart just a little disorganized and not the best at explaining concepts.

David Patrick
INST414

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/30/2022

The course isn't hard-- exams and quizzes are super easy (I mean super easy) and open book, note, internet. But this class was very disorganized. Oftentimes I would take the quizzes and some of the questions would be marked wrong when they were right. The professor did correct this after I emailed but this happened a lot and honestly the whole course felt sloppily put together. All of the homework was just textbook exercises and the readings were the textbook and YouTube videos. The exams and quizzes were just questions that we the students made for our reading assignments. That's right-- the professor didn't have any original materials in this course. I don't think a professor should be expected to write all notes and homework entirely from scratch but here Patrick was really just a grader, not really a professor. I could have done all of this on my own and taken a different elective instead. Oh, also another thing-- our syllabus listed that we would learn about SVMs, logistic regression, neural networks, and a few other things, but so far we have not touched on this at all in the readings or assignments. I would take him if you just want the grade but if you want to learn and be challenged (and feel like you're actually taking a class...) take another professor.

Naghmeh Momeni
INST414

Anonymous
10/24/2021

Do not take this class with this professor. It is completely unorganized (she didn't release the syllabus until halfway through the first week and told us no assignments would be assigned until after add/drop... which I should have been suspicious of). She also never responds to emails and only hosts office hours by appointment only (but that might as well be no office hours since she doesn't reply to emails). Never sends out announcements or emails nor answers the questions posted in the Campuswire that she said would be the primary source for getting answered. She posts lectures/content whenever she wants; the class is poorly structured and she expects we'll just make time for it somehow as if this is the only class we have. Lectures are poor and barely help with the quizzes. She's hard to hear/understand and always have screaming children in the back of her videos. As a straight A student, this class with her is the absolute worse.

Babak Fotouhi
INST414

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
07/21/2021

Absolutely solid professor. Took this class during the summer semester (online), and he posted ~3hrs of lectures per week. He grades super lightly, but the grading criteria is vague and he doesn't seem to provide any feedback for improvements. Gave lots of extra credit. I would 100% take him again.

Aditya Ravindra Bhat
INST414

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/16/2020

Professor Aditya knows his material and know-how to teach a class. He does live coding and walk through step by step if you get stuck. He's very helpful and knows that everyone in his class learning and understanding the Data Science concepts. He's the best professor for INST 414.

Aditya Ravindra Bhat
INST414

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/18/2019

Makes himself available to help. A little hard to understand in lecture, but go to office hours and you’ll be fine.

Aditya Ravindra Bhat
INST414

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/18/2019

Adi is a great guy and definitely knows what he is talking about. Despite being the first time he taught a class as an instructor, he still did well in conveying concepts and answering questions. He is a kind and lenient person that is willing to help whenever reached out to. As long as you are willing to show an interest, he will do anything he can to assist you.

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