Reviews of professor Robert Seppala

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Took the class Fall 2020. He keeps a positive attitude is a nice guy, but lectures were hard to follow and I didn't really learn much. If you want to learn I'd recommend online resources like jbstatistics on YT. He cut tests out and gave us all 100% for the final project, so the class was graded purely on watching lecture videos and HW.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
To sum it up, Sepalla's lectures are boring and uninformative and his tests are difficult because what he lectures on isn't really on the test. You will have to study A LOT if you want to perform highly in this class. I read the textbook he recommended, watched youtube videos, and thoroughly read through homework solutions.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures are clear and informative with a lot of real-world applications to make the information more interesting. He tends to occasionally dive too deep into the theoretical side of the material. The homework is pretty time consuming but it prepares you well for the exams. If you have prev stat experience, the class is an easy A.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Seppala is kindhearted, but the homeworks for this class ruined every weekend of the semester. I'm willing to work, but seriously, one of the homeworks I turned in was 18 pages. His lectures are pretty clear, but the material is quite dense and easy to misinterpret at first. But, he dropped our final and it was only 10% in the first place. Average.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Homework is time consuming, but the class is easy. I just let the recorded lectures play in the background for the grade and learned to do the homework from the examples. Very minimal work. If you want to actually learn about stats, this is not for you. If you just want to pass for the requirement, take this course.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
This class isn't tough. Nor does it harbor any kind of discussion, participation or understanding. I already took a statistics class back in high school, and I came out of this knowing less about the concepts of stats than I did back then. I don't think I sunk more than 20 hours in the entire semester towards this class. Do your homework and pass.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is the worst class I've taken at UF and the first time I've ever been scared about failing a course. He asks you to come to lectures but doesn't use a microphone or write big so it's hard to follow him. He doesn't provide recorded lectures or proper practice exams so you come to the exam blind. Wish I took a different class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
exams are nothing like the homework, have fun studying for exams that you can't study for

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Seppala is a mediocre and monotone lecturer at best. Despite recording lectures over the pandemic, he refuses to release those videos as an "incentive" for in-class attendance. This is so flawed that it's near-malicious. 1st exam: easily doable if you've taken HS stats. 2nd exam: nothing like homework or given practice problems. Un-skippable class.