Dave Zes
Department of Statistics
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4.6
Overall Rating
Based on 16 Users
Easiness 4.7 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.0 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 4.1 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.5 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

TOP TAGS

  • Uses Slides
  • Appropriately Priced Materials
  • Gives Extra Credit
  • Tolerates Tardiness
  • Is Podcasted
  • Often Funny
  • Would Take Again
  • Needs Textbook
  • Useful Textbooks
  • Snazzy Dresser
  • Engaging Lectures
GRADE DISTRIBUTIONS
68.1%
56.8%
45.4%
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11.4%
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

77.5%
64.6%
51.6%
38.7%
25.8%
12.9%
0.0%
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A
A-
B+
B
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C+
C
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

73.2%
61.0%
48.8%
36.6%
24.4%
12.2%
0.0%
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A
A-
B+
B
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C+
C
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

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Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
June 20, 2020

The entire class was online as a result of the pandemic, and my experience may be different from other people's.
Professor Zes, in my opinion, was not the best lecturer. While he explained most topics well, he tended to ramble. In my opinion, there were also a good number of occasions where he wasn't clear, and I had to rely on the textbook. I went to every lecture in the event that we would have a quiz, mainly because he briefly goes over methods to use. I found that basing my knowledge from the textbook was a lot better than going to lecture. However, the class with Professor Zes is one of the easiest classes I have taken so far. The homework and lab assignments were pretty straightforward and are straight from the textbook. The quizzes, midterm, and final consisted only of multiple-choice questions contain no time limit. Further, they all tell you your score immediately and you have 4 attempts (per part) to do the quizzes, midterm, and final.
Professor Zes was very kind, understanding and accommodating with what was happening with the pandemic and police brutality.

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Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A+
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
June 18, 2020

Professor Zes is genuinely a very caring individual who clearly put a lot of work into our lectures.

That being said, his teaching style did not work for me at all. He rambles a bit (understandably -- i'm going to give him some slack because this was one of his first quarters teaching I think and it just happened to be the worst quarter of all time). He goes into EXTREME depth: so much so that it's completely unnecessary. One class was 50 minutes of just explaining the difference between theoretical probability and empirical probability (btw the difference is that theoretical does not account for randomness and doesn't exist in real life, while empirical relies on simulations -- definitely not worth 50 minutes).

For someone who really wants to VERY thoroughly understand the material, he's not bad at all. For me,... I low-key stopped attending lecture. He's so nice and accommodating that it's hard to really criticize him. He seems like he would be a really good professor for a harder course or an upper div.

He gives tons of extra credit, is super lenient on grading (it seems bad when you see the quizzes at first, but I promise he's very very generous with it), and his testing is EXTREMELY fair. You will get multiple attempts for quizzes, the midterm, and the final. He was also kind enough to make the final no-harm (during COVID, mind you).

All in all: a great guy and a good professor, but lectures didn't work for most people in the class. Class is crazy easy, almost no work, but be prepared to maybe put in a little more individual studying if you are the type of person who really struggles with statistics and needs more assistance from lectures.

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Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A+
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
June 16, 2020

Note: the entire class was online due to the pandemic, and it is possible I may have had a different experience had the class been in-person.

Professor Zes, in my opinion, was not the best lecturer. While he explained most topics sufficiently well, I thought he had a tendency to jump from one topic to another. In my opinion, there were also a good number of occasions where he wasn't clear, and I had to rely on the textbook.

That being said, the class with Professor Zes is one of the easiest classes I have taken so far. The homework and lab assignments were pretty straightforward and are straight from the textbook. The quizzes, midterm, and final consisted only of multiple-choice questions with no time limit. Further, they all tell you your score immediately and you have multiple attempts to do the quizzes, midterm, and final. While a few questions were tricky, it was pretty easy to spot your mistake and get everything correct within the allotted number of attempts.

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COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A
June 20, 2020

The entire class was online as a result of the pandemic, and my experience may be different from other people's.
Professor Zes, in my opinion, was not the best lecturer. While he explained most topics well, he tended to ramble. In my opinion, there were also a good number of occasions where he wasn't clear, and I had to rely on the textbook. I went to every lecture in the event that we would have a quiz, mainly because he briefly goes over methods to use. I found that basing my knowledge from the textbook was a lot better than going to lecture. However, the class with Professor Zes is one of the easiest classes I have taken so far. The homework and lab assignments were pretty straightforward and are straight from the textbook. The quizzes, midterm, and final consisted only of multiple-choice questions contain no time limit. Further, they all tell you your score immediately and you have 4 attempts (per part) to do the quizzes, midterm, and final.
Professor Zes was very kind, understanding and accommodating with what was happening with the pandemic and police brutality.

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COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A+
June 18, 2020

Professor Zes is genuinely a very caring individual who clearly put a lot of work into our lectures.

That being said, his teaching style did not work for me at all. He rambles a bit (understandably -- i'm going to give him some slack because this was one of his first quarters teaching I think and it just happened to be the worst quarter of all time). He goes into EXTREME depth: so much so that it's completely unnecessary. One class was 50 minutes of just explaining the difference between theoretical probability and empirical probability (btw the difference is that theoretical does not account for randomness and doesn't exist in real life, while empirical relies on simulations -- definitely not worth 50 minutes).

For someone who really wants to VERY thoroughly understand the material, he's not bad at all. For me,... I low-key stopped attending lecture. He's so nice and accommodating that it's hard to really criticize him. He seems like he would be a really good professor for a harder course or an upper div.

He gives tons of extra credit, is super lenient on grading (it seems bad when you see the quizzes at first, but I promise he's very very generous with it), and his testing is EXTREMELY fair. You will get multiple attempts for quizzes, the midterm, and the final. He was also kind enough to make the final no-harm (during COVID, mind you).

All in all: a great guy and a good professor, but lectures didn't work for most people in the class. Class is crazy easy, almost no work, but be prepared to maybe put in a little more individual studying if you are the type of person who really struggles with statistics and needs more assistance from lectures.

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COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A+
June 16, 2020

Note: the entire class was online due to the pandemic, and it is possible I may have had a different experience had the class been in-person.

Professor Zes, in my opinion, was not the best lecturer. While he explained most topics sufficiently well, I thought he had a tendency to jump from one topic to another. In my opinion, there were also a good number of occasions where he wasn't clear, and I had to rely on the textbook.

That being said, the class with Professor Zes is one of the easiest classes I have taken so far. The homework and lab assignments were pretty straightforward and are straight from the textbook. The quizzes, midterm, and final consisted only of multiple-choice questions with no time limit. Further, they all tell you your score immediately and you have multiple attempts to do the quizzes, midterm, and final. While a few questions were tricky, it was pretty easy to spot your mistake and get everything correct within the allotted number of attempts.

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4.6
Overall Rating
Based on 16 Users
Easiness 4.7 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.0 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 4.1 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.5 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

TOP TAGS

  • Uses Slides
    (13)
  • Appropriately Priced Materials
    (9)
  • Gives Extra Credit
    (11)
  • Tolerates Tardiness
    (8)
  • Is Podcasted
    (7)
  • Often Funny
    (9)
  • Would Take Again
    (10)
  • Needs Textbook
    (9)
  • Useful Textbooks
    (10)
  • Snazzy Dresser
    (5)
  • Engaging Lectures
    (7)
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