Reviews of professor Michelle Borkin

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The entire lectures are made up of her explaining visualizations, and she's great at it. But from homework 5 and after you are required to code in D3 which the TA teaches for about 40 mins once a week. I'm sure he was great but just not a good teacher, and the starter codes are not enough to complete the homework that make up most of your grade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Unfortunately if you are a DS major you are required to take this class - just be prepared to be bombarded with time consuming, virtually useless assignments. The class is lengthy and no information you learn is useful. This is the first DS class I have not learned anything in. If you can take this class with another professor I'd recommend it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
In my 4 years at Northeastern I have never rated a professor before but this class is so awful that I felt I needed to protect future students. This course has an unbelievable amount of work and the strictest grading policy I have seen in all my DS courses. The professor is extremely passionate and knowledgable but has no sympathy for students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her class is prolonged and the content is virtually useless. The service learning aspect prevents you from making any sort of visualizations that could help you in the real world. The coding tutorials are barely touched upon while it's more focused on writing 400-word essays weekly. If you want to take this class take it with someone else.