Reviews of professor Emily Hand

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Worst class/professor I have taken at UNR. Avoid her classes if you have options.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
One of the best professors I have had on my 9 years attending to college classes (I am a graduate student). You really learn a lot, and it's not hard at all if you have basic calculus and linear algebra knowledge. You might need to have intermediate python skills to easily complete the projects though.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Each semester she makes changes to her class structure based on last semester's course evaluations. On her second semester of teaching, the outcome is one of the best, most well-thought out classes I've taken. The following semesters will likely be even better. Her only goal is to make you learn, how well you do in the class depends solely on that.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Paid for tophat, barely used it. Had to use piazza to contact her. Had to use canvas to keep track of grades. Had to use a 3rd party grade calculator because she doesn't know how to use canvas. She literally made us use different stuff because she is so naive that she didn't want to figure out how to use canvas correctly.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She made us do course evaluation with the promise of "extra credit" she received 54 out of 57 highest I've ever seen a prof get at my 5 years at UNR. Guess what? she wasn't happy, she wanted 100% so no extra credit. She is just a manipulative person, she treats everyone like they are stupid and she smiles when doing so! that is insane! Literally..

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The lectures were really good. Have quizzes every week. Have 4/5 projects. 1st project is a bit hard. Grading is fair.  have to spend some time, but overall not hard. She's a really good teacher.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Hand is passionate about machine learning and has real excitement while she teaches. The subject matter is difficult and so are the projects, but that's the topic. It wasn't a secret that people weren't happy with the scores they received on the exams, but she went above and beyond to let us make up our scores and actually learn from it.