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.

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!

Definitely worst of the worst.