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Vincent Lyzinski
DATA350 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/17/2023 |
Wonderful professor. He is a great lecturer and you will learn a lot in this class. He is also very helpful in office hours if you need help with R. Assignments can be tough but they are doable and the grading is pretty easy. |
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Vincent Lyzinski
STAT426 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/01/2023 |
While fairly difficult problems are common, you have more than enough time to complete them and he explains very well the material, you just need the statistics background and it is fine. |
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Vincent Lyzinski
STAT426 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/26/2022 |
The content of STAT426 is very theoretical, as the other reviewer said, but this is a statistics based data science class, so that is not exactly egregious. The homeworks are decently difficult-- I definitely found myself submitting up until the 11:59pm deadline a few times because I just needed to think about the problems. Some questions are from the ISLR textbook. These are usually not too bad, although sometimes they take pages of algebra. Some questions are ones that Lyzinski himself writes. These are usually extremely long questions (like the problems physically span half a page) but when you go to actually solve/answer them, they usually only take a few lines. These do take a while to think about though, as you're always convinced it can't just be 2 lines of math! There must be more to do! Nope, there usually isn't, his own questions are decently short to complete. He tends to do most of the mathematical deriving himself for these questions as well. These questions depend a lot on what he says during lecture and what's on the powerpoint slides. If you go to office hours, he will either explain these questions in full (AKA pretty much solve it for you) or give you really good hints. The hardest part of this class for me was figuring out what to take notes on-- he flies through the slides really quickly. I pretty much gave up on taking notes halfway through the semester. Just didn't know what to take notes on. The exams were also pretty tough. They were similar to his practice tests and also to homeworks, but he would usually throw one or two trick questions on there. He is also very liberal with partial credit though, which makes the tough exams somewhat easier in that regard. Here's the best part-- he curves every assignment. Homework, exams, and the final project. For the exams, a mid D was equivalent to a B-, a C+ was equivalent to an A-. So that was quite lovely. Definitely a super cool class but do not take if you want to come out a strong coder. He gives you code to run for homeworks and on the final project you basically just had to go through his powerpoints to find the other code you needed. You will understand... some.. of the theoretical stuff. Not all of it though, as this class is very dense in material. But I really learned a LOT about machine learning this semester. So I would recommend this class with Lyzinski, but only if you care about the statistics background of data science. If you're looking to become a great coder go take a CMSC class instead. |
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Vincent Lyzinski
STAT426 Anonymous 12/15/2022 |
Content is extremely theoretical and he flies through it very fast. There is almost no actual coding in this class (you are copy pasting already written code). Homeworks are also difficult and take a long time to complete. |