# JACK EDELSON — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## instructor

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### name

JACK EDELSON

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## history

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## reviews

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    "comment": "Jack's a nice guy but his lectures weren't very helpful and rather disorganized. Too much difficulty for an elementary level class. I felt that we rushed through R and therefore many concepts/applications were unclear. Worse, we had to submit a final project that required us to apply everything (a huge tangled mess) taught in class.",
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    "comment": "Just do yourself a favor and stay away. Dumpster fire of a lecturer and class",
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    "comment": "This is the worst class and professor I have had in my 4 years at UW Madison. He is an awful lecturer and it is a low level class that expects difficult coding without any support. Avoid at all costs, no reason to put yourself through this misery.",
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    "comment": "Jack is a nice guy but his teaching method is less than ideal. No slides, nothing visual, just talks at you for 75 minutes and you just spend that whole time praying it will end. you have to go to lecture because there's not textbook. The topic of the class had potential to be interesting, but the way it was presented ruined it.",
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### courses

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