Do NOT take this professor for any stat courses. As the other review mentioned, he just reads off lecture notes but doesn't really do any teaching at all. The course is good to have some projects under your belt but even then you can take this course with another professor. You're better off being self-taught for this course if you have no choice.

This is Abuzaid's first quarter teaching at UCSB, and I don't understand why the department hired him. He can barely convey the ideas in his "lecture" notes. Lectures are 75 minutes of incoherent babbling and asking questions that don't make sense. Little/no comprehension of time required for tests. Stay away. I hope he doesn't stay the full year.