By far the worst professor I've had in my entire life. The biggest concern is that he is very disorganized, so he'll often give out 60-90 page PDFs and expect us to just know all the content there. Quizzes are given out at random times, exams are difficult, and there is a final project that was due a week AFTER finals week. By any means, try to take a different professor to save yourself time and health.

He is a very nice professor! His two lab exams are just tedious and insane. I really dislike the lab exams because the TAs are pretty harsh at grading it. Nice professor but definitely not easy because he doesn't curve at all.

I disagree with the poster below. The lab exams were not difficult - if you were able to complete the weekly lab assignments, the exams should've been quite easy. However, I do think that the TAs were a bit picky when it came to grading.

The midterms weren't too bad. If you go over his lecture slides and read the book thoroughly, you should be fine. The final, however, was a bit brutal. The multiple-choice questions were decent, but the free-response section was tedious and quite lengthy.

Definitely worst of the worst.

Dr. Almohalwas is the best professor I have had thus far! The class itself is definitely engaging and really useful since you learned so much! (KNN, logistic regression, LDA, QDA, PCA, GAM,...) He is very clear during lectures and very helpful during office hours. I believe the tests are a bit short and difficult, so one needs to attend lectures and be engaged a lot, but it pays off. The group project is really useful and can be considered real-life applications. Overall, Dr. Almo is great and I have never learned so much useful information in a single class!

Almo is a very caring professor, but I have had (way) better lecturers. Material is very similar to Miles' 102B class (basically Intro to ML). I absolutely got destroyed from the all the exams (probably just me, mean and median were B+ and B- for midterm and final), thus ending with a B+ despite performing very well on the Kaggle project. Exams ask a lot about conceptual stuff and has an actual programming question, but it was the conceptual stuff that throws me off since we don't usually get questions on those in our homework and it was relatively hard to find practice questions.

The class overall is not bad (coming from someone who despises stats). I did not put much focus on this class as I should have. The coding for this class is annoying because it does not relate much to the concepts that are being taught. Professor Almohalwas does a good job when teaching the class. I would recommend but make sure you do all your assignments.

The best professor I've had so far. I feel he is everywhere whenever u needed help. As long as you asked him, he is happy to answer every question. And the lecture is very clear and organized. Plus, he would check your final for you!!!!!!!! what professor would do that??????????? Take HIM, you won't be regretted!!!!

Almo is quite funny and definitely cares about his students, but any structure in this class is nonexistent. As previous reviews have acknowledged, his "notes" are just random files on Bruinlearn that consist of R outputs with little context. Besides this, though, the class isn't actually too difficult since the class is essentially entirely computational. The homeworks are graded pretty leniently and the midterm and final were both calculating various values associated with regression outputs. Definitely make a formula sheet from his notes--it will be invaluable since you can use it on exams. Overall, I didn't really enjoy this class.

This professor very clearly cares about his students. He is super responsive if you email him and always seems willing to help out when you ask him questions inside and outside of the classroom. Homework assignments are pretty reasonable and graded very generously, and most questions on quizzes/assessments are also pretty straightforward; just be sure to keep track of all formulas discussed during class, and you should be fine. The biggest downside to taking this class with this professor is that he is SUPER disorganized. The Bruin Learn site is a jumble of random files, only about half of which are discussed/relevant to whatever is going on in class at any given time. The final project is also a total mess, as he typically assigns groups before people drop the class, so you might end up doing a group project alone (I asked to get reassigned multiple times, and he never got around to doing it). The final project is also due a few days after the final exam/end of the quarter, so you may find yourself working on it during your break.