Spends 30+ minutes of each 75-minute lecture wasting time instead of doing examples. Lectures are strictly theory and provide no help with actual word problems. Be prepared to study a lot.
Good professor overall, exams were very fair and similar to the homework. She also made a great final study guide. I understand the frustration of others with the extra credit not really helping anyone's grade, but not sure why the reviews are so negative otherwise. She is an overall good professor. Clearly cares about students if you talk to her.
Many comments here give Ravat a low grade, but I do think she is a good professor. Her lectures are easy to understand. As long as you fully understand the course materials and assignments posed on canvas, you'll find that the mid-term and the final are not that hard to do.
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!
Low quality lecture, don't expect to understand anything in class but take ton of your time ahead exams to understand yourself. Low quality office hour, not even good as ULA or TA. Uncleared grading and fake promise in extra credit. One of the WORST professor I ever had. Stop complaining like a baby in class about the rating you get from students
Disappointed. She acted like a caring professor offering lots of extra credit assignments which was heavy, but they are totally fake that does not helped with your final score. Not telling you how much extra credit will be added. Said will add more credit to midterm but nothing is real. Will never take any course with her and she disgusted me.
Took pstat10 and 120b with her and I would say her classes are easy if you do the work. HW and quizzes are good practices for exams. final was almost the same as the study guide and a cheat sheet was allowed. Personally think midterm was harder due to shorter test time
Professor cared about the class but had a lot of fake promises that she did not deliver. Told everyone to do extra credit which would help our final grade (it did not). The final was similar to the homework and practice final she provided so that was nice, but to later found out I got a 68% even though we got a cheat sheet.
Allows notes on exams. No practice midterm, no partial credit. Final had practice with solutions, I put them on my notes. Final had EXACT SAME problems, I copied all solutions and explanations. Got a 70%, couldn't view on gradescope. All extra credit is fake. Promised to add points to everyone's midterm, didn't do this. Treats us like dogs.
I am not a fan of how she has a heavy emphasis on proofs during lecture. That being said, she is a very caring teacher and genuinely wants her students to succeed. I don't think she's necessarily a difficult professor, I just think that the material in 120B is just intrinsically difficult. Very hard class, but I wouldn't shy away from Ravat.
Lectures are posted w/blanks before, filled during, posted wk after. Exams emulate the homework, very fair with credit and grading. Hw graded by completion (not correctness). Mom energy, has little attitude at times but overall wants students to succeed. Has good timesheet for OH. Liked her style alot, has improved since all the bad ratings.
she literally makes the class harder for students with her confusing teaching style and barely provides resources
Lectures are just copy pasted theorems from the textbook. She basically spend the entire hour filling in empty spots with formulas without giving you time to think nor provide any useful explanation.
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.