He is great, one of the only professors are UCSB Who is willing to talk to his students with patience. He seems like he actually cares about and is willing to help if you start a conversation with him. Class wise is okay, a ton of work, I definitely cried over it at times

Online class essentially, used Chat GPT to write all my code. No use going to any lectures, I personally stopped after week 1. Still, weekly projects take between 6-10 hours on average. Final project is tough, there's a project week around week 8 that's tough. Essentially, no lectures, but a TON of hw/projects. If unfamiliar to R, will be hard.

Class is super useful in that it forces you to learn R. However, lectures are extremely lackluster, the TurnItIn Autograder is horrible, and there is too much writing for a coding class. Workload is annoying but managable. Youtube + AI will be your best friends in this class. Wish the written assignments were due every-other week.

Lectures weren't helpful, basically online class. Hard in the sense that it's time consuming (think 5-10 hours per week, 10+ for final), but it was a guaranteed A if you put in effort. I did learn a lot of R (although self-taught) and it was fun at times. However, beware- not a lot of resources, TAs only available online on Nectir infrequently

Lots of coding and write-ups for homework, but they are all doable if you put in the effort. The only warning I'll give is that the final project is NOT a one-day assignment, expect at least a week to finish that. Both Prof Startz and the TAs care about students and give support. overall great class

Self-taught the coding part, definitely can be hard but there is the nectir class group chat where you can basically get the answers. Write-ups the TAs are kinda harsh but I averaged 90-100/100 every time. Only reason I got a B+ instead of an A was because I thought I could do final in like a day, like other assignments. Was not the case