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BENJAMIN SNYDER

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Raw average: 3.00/5 from 2 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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CS545 · course not matched
Quality 1/5Difficulty 2/5
I have never seen a class fall apart so badly. He tried to make our NLP class into a projectbased class by having us create a large open-source NLP project.. He was extremely disorganized however and did not even tell us what we were working towards until 5 weeks into the class. Last 7 weeks basically nothing happened and the last week he was gone.
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Classes with BENJAMIN SNYDER

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TermCourseTitle
Fall 2015COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Spring 2015COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Spring 2015COMPSCI 990Dissertation
Fall 2014COMPSCI 699Directed Study
Fall 2014COMPSCI 799Master's Research
Fall 2014COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Spring 2014COMPSCI 790Master's Thesis
Spring 2014COMPSCI 799Master's Research
Spring 2014COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Fall 2013COMPSCI 699Directed Study
Fall 2013COMPSCI 799Master's Research
Fall 2013COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Spring 2013COMPSCI 699Directed Study
Spring 2013COMPSCI 769Advanced Natural Language Processing
Spring 2013COMPSCI 799Master's Research
Spring 2013COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Fall 2012COMPSCI 799Master's Research
Spring 2012COMPSCI 699Directed Study
Spring 2012COMPSCI 790Master's Thesis
Spring 2012COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Fall 2011COMPSCI 769Advanced Natural Language Processing
Fall 2011COMPSCI 799Master's Research
Fall 2011COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Spring 2011COMPSCI 769Advanced Natural Language Processing
Spring 2011COMPSCI 790Master's Thesis

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