Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
She teaches statistics better than some professors in the stats department. Exams are hard but you learn a lot from them. If you like analytics and don't mind 8 am this is a great class.Rate My Professors ↗
Current instructor
Yiwei Zhang
What students say
Original student reviews · all captured dates
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
She is amazing! This semester, this course is entirely online, but the course is still run really well. Even if you haven't taken a stats class before, this course is totally doable. Her examples and her lectures are great, and I found this course to be very interesting. Overall, not too much work, and I would recommend this course to anyone.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 2/5Difficulty 3/5
New teacher in Madison, almost felt as though she was too smart to teach excel. She moved pretty quick sometimes so it can be hard to keep up when she's doing demonstrations with excel, sometimes it was just better to watch and absorb. First half of the course is in excel, the other half is interpreting store data and doing presentationsRate My Professors ↗
Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
(I think) It was Professor Zhang's first semester at UW and she did such a great job! I was dreading this course, but the professor made the material easier to understand, and provided a lot of resources (videos, powerpoints, etc) to use outside of class to help. 3 group projects, but she provided great feedback so we could improve every time!Rate My Professors ↗
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Classes with Yiwei Zhang
CNSRSCI 990
Research and Thesis
1–12 creditsCNSRSCI 990 is a research and thesis course involving independent research and writing under faculty supervision.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
CNSRSCI 999
Independent Study
1–3 creditsCNSRSCI 999 is an independent study course where students conduct directed projects arranged with a faculty member.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleRecorded teaching history
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| Term | Course | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2026 | CNSRSCI 990 | Research and Thesis |
| Fall 2026 | CNSRSCI 999 | Independent Study |
Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.
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