Quality 4/5Difficulty 4/5
Super nice and knowledgable, mostly just reads off the notes but is super helpful during office hoursRate My Professors ↗
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Bret LARGET
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Quality 2/5Difficulty 2/5
lectures are long winded and inefficient. lack of reading and self study material compared to professors of other sections. says he will record every single lecture but quite a few lecture recordings were missing or missing video or missing audio. the course was still easy thoRate My Professors ↗
Quality 2/5Difficulty 3/5
While Bret was kind and always encouraged reaching out for help/office hours, he would sometimes assume students knew as much as he did. When asking for help, I felt a little confused based on how much jargon is required to understand current concepts. Be ready to study, review lectures, and spend time familiarizing yourself with the content.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 3/5Difficulty 1/5
Any professor rating based on Stat240 should be 3 b/c of how standardized the course is. Every professor uses the same set of notes and does the same thing. Personally watched Bret's recordings until halfway through when I swapped to Bi who did lectures better IMO. The class was easy outside of the final. Overall, cram for tests and watch lectures.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 4/5Difficulty 3/5
TBH I did not try very hard in this class as I just want to add ds major and I took some similar classes before and had enough programming skills. But Bret was a really good professor. He just read his slide but his slide is really good and makes sense. Weekly projects took abt 3~4 hrs and exams can be hard. Not hard to pull an A in this class.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 2/5Difficulty 4/5
I loved the material in this class as an economics and data science double major. However Bret could of taught it better. He would just read off slides, so I stopped going to lecture and just watched them online. Class was pretty disorganized as well. However, The group project wasnt that bad and I thought It was pretty cool.Rate My Professors ↗
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Classes with Bret LARGET
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