Don't be scared by her negative comments from Reddit. Dr. Ravat is a caring and respectful professor - I can see her effort to help students learn the material. Her homework encourages me to review every week and not to binge study before the exam. That's really helpful. Her exam is of reasonable difficulty; if you did learn you'll be fine.

She's fine. If you are planning to take pstat 10, I would recommend her. She talks a lot about how to become a data engineer, which is not so related to this course but related to your future job.

Professor Ravat's PSTAT 10 course was well-structured and easy to do well in. Section attendance is mandatory and very helpful. The only issue is her (optional) lectures are very boring and often not helpful. I suspect this may change in the future, so I see no issue with enrolling in her courses.

Genuinely don't understand the Ravat hate on RMP, I thought she was perfect for this course. Lectures and course structure were very organized. No midterm - just biweekly quizzes that could ALL be retaken at the end. Final was not bad either. Only one hw assignment per week. Made the course very approachable and was always asking for feedback!

Ravat set up this course in a good way, hit on the application of a lot of Comp. Stats topics, and brushed over the proofs as well, but the application is what was tested. Pace of the course was relaxed, and the projects were interesting. It was hard to ask her questions about the material though; and course structure wasn't clear. TA was clutch.

My favorite class in UCSB! Dr. Ravat designed a great course on Monte Carlo Methods & Social Network Analysis. Great class to have a few hands on projects and connect with other classmates. She even planned out a career panel and brought in data scientists who worked in NASA, Amazon, and JPMorgan. Take it if ever offer again! Easy & Fair Grading!

Not that bad, I feel like a lot of people on here underrate her.

Dr. Ravat's teaching style and the course content are manageable, but she is not the most easily accessible or considerate professor. She has a clear passion for data science, but her email policy is quite strict, and expresses a greater ego as the course progresses. Not bad, but if given the option I would prefer to take it with somebody else.

Professor Ravat was nice. She offered two easy extra credit opportunity & let us retake one of her quizzes. Although quizzes & final account for half of our grade, the other half is basically free points (hw & ws). My main critique is that I wish she had provided the answers to the final review sheet. Just do the worksheets and you should be fine!

Dr. Ravat was actually a pretty nice and caring professor, she has definitely improved a lot since some of these negative rate my prof reviews were written. Very fair grading and class structure. It was super cool that she taught SQL in this course as well. She also really seemed to care about her students and is very passionate about DS

Loved how she set up the course and the section and homeworks were very helpful for learning the material and doing well on the quizzes.

Overall great teacher and very nice!

Pretty bad lecturer, that said she has slides for each lecture, is a nice person and the class was pretty manageable, final and quizzes are all multiple choice so not a bad class, but lecture's aren't very helpful.

Dr. Ravat has improved her syllabus and lecture material since a lot of the negative reviews on this page. Section is mandatory and great practice for the quizzes. If you go to all lecture, and attend all sections, and do all assignments, final shouldn't be an issue. Her and her TAs are a hassle to reach over email, so go to office hours.

Good professor in the sense she is very passionate and kind if you go to her office hours. Class was graded very fairly.

Bad lecture. Exams are not the same as review and revision.

Worst Prof I've ever had. Need to remind folks to never take anything with her.

Not sure what all the bad reviews are about, I really enjoyed her PSTAT 10 class this quarter and thought she was a pretty good prof.

Ravat seemed very fair when I took PSTAT 10 with her. Very passionate about the material and encouraging of students to pursue data science careers. Not sure why she has so many bad reviews tbh, I felt that the final was very fair and the class is not super exam heavy in terms of grades. She presented the material very clearly on slides as well.

Good teacher who made concepts seem pretty easy.

She took over the second half of PSTAT 10 this winter quarter. I can see that she tried her best to improve her lectures and PPT slides. Questions in the final exam were similar to those in quizzes and homework. As long as you put effort into it, an A is not difficult.

She took over for Wainwright halfway through the quarter. Her notes were not that good and sometimes made me more confused (I could have made better slides). If you self-studied a little bit the class was fine.

Honestly I did not like this class with Ravat, she took over halfway through the quarter and the contrast was obvious. I was doing well in the class all quarter and suddenly got a C on the final after feeling confident on the entire practice test.

She is not that bad, deserves a 3.