STAT 2120

Justin is indeed the realest stat professor out there. It's rare for professors to be both great teachers and kind people but he checks off both boxes. During office hours he effectively clarifies information and it's obvious he cares about his students. He is an engaging lecturer, but if you have not taken a stat course before I would recommend briefly previewing the lecture material before class. While homework is not required, it is beneficial for your learning. It's a good idea to start on labs before going to the lab section and then checking your answers with the other students. There is one take-home quiz per week and it's fairly straightforward, with a time limit of 20 minutes but usually take 5-10 minutes. He drops the lowest 3 quizzes and 6 labs, which is incredibly helpful. I would highly recommend taking STAT 2120 with Justin!

This class is not interesting but it is a pre-req for a lot of things. If you have to take it, like I did, take it with Justin. He posts all of the lecture slides online and drops a generous amount of labs and quizzes throughout the year. I didn't go to lab because it was at an inconvenient time for me until the end of the semester when I had no more drops left. Justin allows a full-page front-and-back cheat sheet on exams, which was very kind and saved me on every test (there are three). Tests are not cumulative and the review slides and lecture are very helpful. I didn't do fantastically on the first test, but you will get a hang of the types of questions after the first one, which remain the same. Tests do not use R and require very little calculation, and using R in lab is easy as most of the code is in Gradescope for you to copy and paste. #tCFS24

This course is an awesome intro course because Justin does a great job of teaching content while making it somewhat interesting. Regarding lectures, go to the first few and get a feel of if you find them beneficial or not. For me, I found that after the first few I did not need to keep going and could just read the slides. I feel that this probably can work for most people. There are 3 exams that are not super difficult if you make a good cheat sheet (you get one for each exam) and understand the concepts behind formulas. Definitely would recommend taking it with Weinstock to anyone.

Personally not a fan of statistics, but Professor Weinstock is a really great instructor and taught the content in a way that was easy to understand. Hw problems & going to lab on non-exam days are technically optional but helpful, and the weekly quizzes are quick/easy ways to review concepts covered in class. If you have to take stat, I definitely recommend taking it with prof Weinstock.

Great intro stats class! I hadn't taken one before but Professor Weinstock's slides are very detailed. Tests are not cumulative and you get a cheat sheet front and back. Highly recommend as a CS integration elective!

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For a 4 credit class, STAT 2120 from Weinstock is incredibly doable and learnable. I essentially failed my AP Statistics exam senior year and I came out of this class with a really good command over the course content.
Weinstock's lectures (which are arguably a bit slow) make all the content for 2120 very intuitive. STAT 2120, and statistics in general, is much less about your ability to crunch numbers and memorize procedures than it is your ability to work with the intuition the class develops, and Weinstock makes that transition very accommodating and easy to understand. Derivations for most of the content's formulas are written out and you can generally understand each component of the type of analysis you are asked to perform.
The content and structure of the course is still the same as the other reviews. You have so many chances to improve your grade and learn the content. Overall, if you have the chance to take 2120 with Weinstock, take it with him. #tCFS24

Justin is a great professor and this class was taught very well. The lectures got straight to the point and were always insightful and he speaks really well and seems really passionate about statistics. The homeworks are optional (I wish I had done them...) and there are weekly quizzes that are a breeze. I really liked how he lets us bring a full page (front and back!) of notes to the exams; without that I would've done awful. The labs aren't required and I rarely went to them unless I had a pressing question or wanted to work in a group setting.

If you took AP Statistics in high school, this is pretty much the exact same class content wise (I took AP stat and got a 4 on the exam, so tested into this class). Super easy and really only a few homework questions per week, which aren't submitted or graded but do help so I would recommend doing them. The class meets twice a week for lecture and twice a week for lab. Lab is extremely easy to do well on, you can work with people in your section. There are 3 exams, none of which are cumulative (including the "final" which is really more like a third midterm taken in the class's finals time slot). Professor Weinstock is super helpful and a really great lecturer.

This class was a good intro to statistics, and if you're taking it with Justin you have nothing to worry about. This class covered the exact same material that my AP statistics course in high school did, just much faster and with way fewer assignments. There's ungraded weekly homework for practice, a weekly multiple choice quiz that's only 5 questions (if you do the HW and take the quiz right after then you're set), two weekly labs (ask the TAs about anything you're unsure about and they'll tell you the answer), and three exams worth 20% each that you're allowed to bring a note sheet to (pro tip: write down the interpretations of things like slope/intercept because you might have a short answer section on them). The exams are mostly multiple choice with some True/False and short answer questions. And on top of all that, you can drop the 3 lowest quiz grades and 6 lab grades. Sometimes the lectures are full of info and kind of dry, but Justin is great at explaining concepts and answers questions well whenever students have them. I definitely recommend this class for anyone looking for a good intro stat class!

I love Justin Weinstock. He is a great lecturer, explaining every concept throughly and pausing often to allow students the opportunity to ask questions. Justin is very personable and approachable, so I always enjoyed sharing my questions with him. The weekly quizzes serve as good review material from the lectures, and the labs are designed to be completed in groups. My only complaint would be the homework. Although it is optional, I wish the problems were most similar to what we would see on the exams. However, the homework questions are actually more advanced than the exam questions, so there should be no cause for alarm.
Overall, a great class because of Professor Weinstock.

Professor Weinstock is one of the best professors I've had for sure. He does a wonderful job of keeping you engaged during lecture (although he flies through the material super quick). He drops the lowest 3 quizzes and the lowest 6 labs, so very very generous! The 3 exams are each worth 20% and are not cumulative. The exams weren't too difficult (averaged B's for all of them) and the quiz and lab grades definitely boost. I would definitely recommend taking STAT 2120 with Justin, you won't be disappointed! #tCFfall22

Professor Weinstock is the man. Super cool and chill dude. My friends who took this class with another professor warned me that it was very hard but Weinstock makes it easy. 6 labs got dropped, 3 quizzes got dropped, and there are three exams with no cumulative final. Very good lecturer and all the resources he provided were very helpful. No weekly homework to submit other than the labs (which are done during lab section - and are not challenging. Lab is also optional but HIGHLY recommend you go because the TAs will help you) and the weekly quizzes (took me less than 5 minutes to complete usually). If you need to take this class as a pre-req definitely take it with Weinstock.

Our Friend, Justin Weinstock.

To begin, Justin Weinstock is like 29 years old, wears a Baltimore Ravens sweatshirt to 80% of his lectures, and is built like Bol Bol. He feels like a really helpful fourth year student more than a professor, in a good way. For reference, I went to his office hours two days before the third & final exam, and my man was just running around showing the first question on the exam to people on his laptop. Super cool guy, clearly very passionate about the course material. That course material however.... ranges from boringly meh to mind numbingly incomprehensible.

It. Just. Moves. So. Fast.

There are two lectures a week, and in these, you can expect Justin Weinstock to absolutely BLAST through 25-40 slides at a speed that will either a.) demolish your hand you're taking notes so fast or b.) leave you in the dust questioning every single concept that was covered. You will absolutely need to put in extra time OUTSIDE of the lectures to understand concepts, because the EXAMS ARE HEAVILY CONCEPTUAL. (GO TO OFFICE HOURS). There are three exams, each noncumulative, so the 'final exam' is really just exam 3. You're also allowed to bring a full 8.5x11 page of notes to each exam, because, to quote Justin; "Statisticians don't like to memorize". Okay.

Here's Justin's grading breakdown
25% labs (2x week)
15% weekly online collab quizzes (5 questions each, open note, and pretty easy to land 5/5s every time)
20% Exam 1 (Easiest content in the course, I landed a 95)
20% Exam 2 (I thought it'd be easy again and bombed this one... way harder)
20% Exam 3 (Difficulty somewhere between the first and second exam)

Here's the thing: There are 30 total labs and 12ish total quizzes, but Justin DROPS THE LOWEST SIX LAB GRADES AND LOWEST THREE QUIZ GRADES. I landed a perfect score on both labs and quizzes pretty easily. The easiest way to do this is to GO TO LAB. That may sound crazy, but because labs are simply online gradescope assignments, tons of people just... don't go to lab? If you go to lab, the TAs there will guide you through everything, and you can ace every single one, without fail. That's 25% of the class, right there.

Overall, while the concepts in Stat 2120 are pretty difficult at times, Justin makes it more than possible to attain an A- if you put in like 4 hours a week. Don't be afraid of this class.

The best statistics professor by far. I was worried that STAT would be hard, however Justin gave possible the most fair and balanced workload for a 4 credit course. The labs truly were just information you learned straight from the lecture the day prior, but they taught you how to apply some of the skills you learned in different ways. The exams were very similar to the labs and you get a page of notes front and back to help you with the formulas. They were very fair with the averages being in the high 80s. Take this class with Justin, as he is incredibly knowledgeable about statistics and genuinely wants his students to succeed, and this is evident by the fairness of the class. The last few weeks of the class the topics were very obscure and much harder than the first couple months, but with the page of notes you get on the final, it should be manageable to get an A- in the class at least. #tCFfall22