Christopher Andrews

This class is a great introduction to Information Visualization and a ton of fun if you really get into it. The resubmission and ungrading aspect of the course makes it easier to focus on the quality of the visualizations you make. The class is really what you make it and you'll have a good time if you step back to focus on learning.

This course is a valuable course for somebody planning to major or minor in CS but I would not recommend it to other people just for fun. It was very demanding and in the way that it was structured for our generation, it was packed with homework and projects. It is really cool to see the results of your work, tho! The last project called “challenge” was to code our own fully functional version of Wordle (the nyt game) in python. Professor Andrews would make his office hours even 2-3 hours longer than scheduled in times when we needed it. I appreciated that a lot. But his way of teaching was not pushing me to get out of bed for that 8 am. Regardless, I think the department is working on making that class a little more manageable as they are changing its structure a bit. So don’t get discouraged! I wouldn’t say it was too difficult, but it would just require a lot of time spent on it.

This course is a valuable course for somebody planning to major or minor in CS but I would not recommend it to other people just for fun. It was very demanding and in the way that it was structured for our generation, it was packed with homework and projects. It is really cool to see the results of your work, tho! The last project ca …Read more

prof andrews knows his stuff. he'll expect that you have at least some background in js, but it's possible to keep up even if you don't, you'll just have to work a little harder. material feels like a natural extension of other stats/data science classes, so if you're interested in that sorta thing this could be a good class for you.