# Brian Powers — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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### name

Brian Powers

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    "comment": "This professor cannot communicate information effectively by any means. Lectures are often 2 hours when everything could be said in a quarter of that. He obviously understands statistics, but he also assumes that students already have experience with coding in R and makes zero effort to teach how. ",
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    "comment": "tests so hard bro. not even like the midterms. that curve be super high. he a nice jolly chill guy tho always smiling. js the tests bro sheesh.",
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    "comment": "The course was ran very poorly. Lectures were a mix of typed out slides and coding, then homework was all coding, but then the exams were hand written questions. Made no sense. Why teach us how to code if we're going to be tested on solving problems by hand? Don't expect Piazza answers within a few days either. Nowhere to be seen before the final.",
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