GOAT. Best professor in UCSB by far! He truly cares about students and are really nice and approachable. HW are challenging but graded on completion. Quizzes are fair. Midterm and Final are quite long but are reasonable given that they're open notes. Highly recommended to everyone!

Prof Martin is phenomenal. He's kind, caring, personable, passionate about the subject, and super on top of things (emailed us after every class with follow ups and resources). I looked forward to every class and learned so much. Definitely schedule time to study. Open note tests, I recommend printing lecture slides + difficult practice problems

Amazing class and amazing professor. He loves what he's talking about and the material gets more and more interesting as the class goes on. Not always the easiest, but open-note exams even it out I'd say.

He has an incredible amount of energy in lectures. Tests are easy if you study the practice problems (solve them over and over and over). Interesting material as well! My only critique is that there are too many papers throwing at us in each class - it's easy to lose focus. A little bit more of econometrics + bayesian stats component would be nice

I don't usually attend many classes, but I made sure to wake up at 9AM every MW for Prof. Martin. His energy is unmatched at UCSB, and he turns lectures into engaging conversations. Tests are medium-hard, but if you do all his practice problems, you'll definitely succeed. best prof I've ever had overall!