COMM 4351

Bro this class....not what I expected. I feel like its like 10% her lecturing, 60% you and your peers presenting, and 20% people asking questions, and 10% guest lecturers. Don't get me wrong Natasha is so sweet and cracks a lot of jokes and she really does want you to understand the material, but it feels like you don't actually...do anything (not a bad thing though lol). You have to present on an article you read (quick and easy) and then 2 coding interpretations (graded on completeness), and 2 group projects. Oh and two quizzes I think? but she sources the questions from us so they're not too bad because you know what to study. When I tell you most people sit in this class and do other stuff on their computer I'm not kidding. Also my class asked an insane amount of questions and so we like never got anything done

There is no feedback or grades until the end. And you get surprised in the end with the final grade.
Super nice and smart professor though! She is basically a mom, and I loved that. We had a small class this semester and it really felt like a family. She tries to include everyone in the conversation. She definitely makes you feel good about yourself.
The class feels a little unorganized in the way which the topics were organized. She updates the syllabus to reflect any schedule changes.
There was a group project, two individual coding interpretations (you get someone else's code and then comment what the code is doing), an article presentation on data science, team coding presentation (present some code on a class topic and talk about what it does), and a quiz (there was supposed to be two). There are occasional reading assigned to be discussed in class.
The topics she covered were very challenging but she doesn't expect you to have any pre-requisite knowledge or become an expert. She covered descriptive and predictive analytics and the technology behind them – all very high level. She covered neural networks, text analysis, image analysis. She'll spend more time on certain topics if you ask her to or if she feels the class needs to.
This class is one of the few data science classes in the Comm School and it's perfect for people with beginner and intermediate knowledge in coding. You get more out of this class the more you participate, and that'll definitely contribute to your grade better. Overall, a good class to get an introduction into analytic methods.
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