One of the best professors in the stats department. His understanding to financial math materials are unparalleled. Hard exmas and hard homeworks, but office hours are extremely helpful. You are actually going to learn practical stuff from Professor Ludkovski. Strongly recommended.

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.

Ludkovski is a tough grader. I had a very hard time getting over a 80% own any homework even though my answers were correct, he was expecting more thorough explanations. This is basically the bad part. The good part is his lectures are awesome, he teaches the material very well, and you'll learn a lot. He's my favorite professor at UCSB.

Taken off huge amount of points off due to "incomplete verbal explanation" for pure mathematical formulas in HWs. Not sure why he do that in a stats class but I will not take his class ever again.

Honestly, using the textbook to learn is better than her sides. I'd recommend using the slides as review material instead. The lectures were sometimes nice, sometimes not. However, the weekly quizzes made sure concepts stuck in your head.

I took her 120B this quarter and I really like her teaching style. There is a lot of interaction in class, and questions are answered patiently to make sure everyone understands. Exams and assignments are not difficult. Go to her lecture and study, then you will get good grades.

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.

Very clear and straightforward professor who lectures well. The material he teaches is hard so his classes are difficult but he makes it as comprehendible as possible. 2nd time taking him, would take again as his exams are very much exactly what he teaches. Go to lectures and put in the work and you'll for sure get the A

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.