The lectures were easy to understand, but the final exam was really hard.

Class was an easy A until the final, dropped my grade from 93% to a B- and I prepared a pretty good amount. Would recommend Holmes, but just study for the final A LOT

Holmes is a great professor and definitely makes you work for a good grade. The quizzes and final were very specific and detail-oriented. Lectures are mandatory to get the coding examples. I don't have anything bad to say about her, it's a good intro class to R/SQL.

She is very sweet. She will answer any questions you have and can be very helpful if you just ask. The lectures are crucial since the code is only given during the lecture. If you struggle with coding this class may seem difficult but in general the weekly homework are not very hard and use concepts from the lectures heavily.

Straightforward class with pretty clear lectures and works in proper difficulty. BTW Prof Holmes is very caring, patient and experienced. If you want advises for your future career either about school life or work relative to statistic, she is definite the right person to talk with.

You have to go to office hours weekly, because the lectures don't cover everything in the homework. The class was organized well but quizzes were ridiculously nit picky. The final was half your grade and the frq was way too complex to complete under the time constraint. Overall, the TAs and prof are nice people and its a good intro to R and SQL

Okay, so I also took it in Spring 2021 and I can agree that the final was literally brutal and uncalled for. I did pretty well on it because I consistently reviewed the material each week and made sure I didn't forget anything. I didn't hate her, but I can definitely see why so many people did. If you're ready to put in the work, you'll be fineeee.

Went from a high A to a C because of the final. I couldn't have studied anymore. It's laughable how we were set up for failure, not success, on the final exam.

The majority of the class and material was easy. The final, however, was unequivocally unfair. The level of difficulty was completely unexpected and we were entirely unprepared. The final is also worth 50% of your grade, so this one exam completely wipes out any, and all good grades from the rest of the quarter. Its just unfair.

SHE DOES NOT DROP ANY OF YOUR LOWEST LAB/HOMEWORK/QUIZ GRADE so if you screw up once your grade is done. Quizzes are moderately difficult. I studied incredibly hard for this and had a nice 95% in the class until the final came up. THE FINAL IS 50% OF YOUR GRADE. One of the questions was worth 30% of your grade and you had to be a genius to get it.

She is probably the best PSTAT professor from the department. Lectures were super easy to follow and slides were amazing and there was only final no midterms so that was good. She was super organized and final was medium not too hard. The only thing I didn't like about the class was that she would take down the video from GS after every week.

Well organized class with a light workload and generous curve. Quizzes are mostly about syntax so watch out for that. Only grievance is that lectures were deleted 5pm on Sundays

Professor Holmes has an extremely unfair grading scale and fails to provide clear instructions. The final exam was worth 50% of the grade during the winter quarter. The topics that were stressed by Professor Holmes and the TAs to study for the final never appeared and the questions were majorly SQL-based. It was an overall terrible experience.

Rather an unfair grader. Quizzes are unreasonably difficult, with uniform 10 minutes and does not allow for DSP extensions. Gave a window to contest Final exam grades then proceeded to allow the final grades to be posted too late to contest. The least empathetic professor I've met in my academic career, and I took her class during the pandemic.

I took her pstat10 online. Lab attendance are mandatory, twice a week. Final is 50% of overall grade. Lectures will be deleted every Sunday. Her lectures are not very clear, and syllabus is always changing.

Literally robs you of your grade. Decides to have a surprise curve in the middle of the course. Grades hard on random things. Also decides to not drop a quiz that was clearly on the syllabus and reminded at the half way point of the course. Very specific and random things to lose points over.

Easy to follow lectures. Simple content. Slow speaker (use 2x or more speed if online class). 20% of students get A's (but says this helps more than hurts) She prepares us well for the final, but the content is not in depth. Not really good for long time knowledge; she sometimes doesn't explain the context of concepts too much.

Simplied course, only assigns hw problems on what is necessary. Light workload. Lectures are fine, but she deletes the previous week's lectures every Sunday.

if you have any coding experience, this class is super easy, lectures aren't even necessary you could stackoverflow the whole class. for some more specific R things, the lectures are useful and timestamped by topic. Only thing I didnt like is that she removed the lectures after 5 pm the sunday before the next week. Final was p easy

Dont take her if you have a better choice, otherwise you will find out yourself keep losing points on something unimportant and irrelevant to what you have learned from this class

Terrible grading scale for worksheet and final

Ask you put comments on every piece of you code and take all points of if you didn't. I got every thing correct on my final but lost 40 point all due to her stupid putting comments rule

Great teacher. Lectures are really good and super informative. Everything was perfectly sculpted.

The class wasn't that hard but the grading on worksheets was so weird. Whether you make a simple mistake or a few, you lose 50%. Since the worksheets were only out of 2 points, getting 1/2 all the time felt so bad. Especially when you had 2 hours to do them. The lectures felt slow, I had to watch them at 1.25 speed. Also only available for a week.