Erik Bleich

I found this course to be incredibly fun and engaging, with discussions helping reinforce memorability of the readings. Exams were mostly fine and I found the final presentation project to be incredibly enjoyable. My only gripe is that Erik Bleich is a harsh grader

Professor Bleich was very passionate about the subject, and well organized. He was excited to discuss about projects and was ready to help during office hours! As the syllabus noted, it is crucial to keep up with your work and not fall behind! If you are on top of your work(from the start) you will most likely be able to do over half of your homework in class for the first half of the semester. Although I had minimal background in computer science the Jupyter notebook we used for the text analysis was clearly catered towards an audience with no previous knowledge. The whole semester you will be working in the same group and topic you choose in the second week of classes, so choose wisely. There was a ton of outside work to do during the last few weeks with multiple assignments and deadlines (about 7-8 hrs a week). All said I really loved this class, especially if you are potentially interested in data science/computer science.

Professor Bleich was very passionate about the subject, and well organized. He was excited to discuss about projects and was ready to help during office hours! As the syllabus noted, it is crucial to keep up with your work and not fall behind! If you are on top of your work(from the start) you will most likely be able to do over half …Read more

Although the course had a heavy amount of reading, it was not difficult to digest by any means. There are pop quizzes on the readings, so they are must-do for this course. As well, it felt that the level of content that we were taught in class was far below the output expected during the midterm and final exam, as well as homework essays.