ladytiger77

Hey everyone! I currently taking 2 classes (Fin 701 w/Vines and ECON 705 w/Shaughnesy). After this term I will only have two classes left to complete in AP2. The classes I have left are ISDS 702 and MADM 760. For MADM 760, I am currently signed up with McLaughlin. However there are openings for Meeks. Does anyone have any recommendations of which one would be the better class to take? These are my last two classes and I'd prefer not to have group work.

Yeah it is getting a bit ridiculous in ISDS 710. There are so many questions that weren't addressed in the syllabus. My background is in application development and most "programming" courses are self taught to an extent due to the nature of the content. Practicing in an IDE (RStudio for us) is the best way to test code. You're not going to get it on the first try. It is all logic and flow. However, for someone who is not used to that and has a different background as most of the people in the course do, Darrat should have started the class with a weekly zoom session or a pre-recorded lecture showing how it is being done.

There are a lot of additional resources that help, but we are in a class with a designated professor for a reason. We should be taught the concepts before applying them in practice. It is hard to grasp the syntax on a language if you dont know what the "words" mean. Its like attempting to speak proper English without knowing what vers, adj, modifiers, etc. are. You can't apply it if you don't know the meaning of the basics. With this being the first time most of the class has been exposed to code, it is not exactly beginner friendly.

Another reason I think there is a lot of confusion is because the text book does NOT match the datacamp exercises. We are assigned a chapter in the book on one thing and practice another. Both aids have different approaches to learning are, which is confusing in a class were everything should be synced.

I guess we will see how this session goes *cue sad violin music* :violin:

If anyone is taking ISDS 710 (Data analytics) with Darrat this session, the page is up and it seems like the class may have been restructured. Previously on the forum, I've read that the course was more marketing based and used the text book "Data-Driven Marketing: The 15 Metrics Everyone in Marketing Should Know". Now it is centered around the programming language R and the textbook is "An Introduction to Statistical and Data Sciences via R".


Has anyone taken this class recently? Is this the normal structure and is the class difficult?