Reviews of professor Vetria Byrd

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Byrd is very unclear with her due dates and the class is very unorganized. You are likely to miss a lot of assignments and get a 0 just because she wont even tell you what assignments are due. She is very unclear. The material is overcomlicated for no reason and the TAs are low key unhelpful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The class is extremely unorganized. There will be different versions of rubrics/requirements for the same project. 

I wasn't taught how to data visualize outside of Excel at all. There was no guidance on any other visualizing tools. 

POOR COMMUNICATION. Always a technical difficulty. Don't buy the textbooks.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Confusing instructions with no help or explanation, drops a lab, homework, and readings onto the class the night before classes begin with no possible warning. Her way of teaching is time consuming and headache inducing, but the side effect seems to be I'm understanding quite a lot, however this has to do more with me having to figure things out.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class is terrible, and I mean it. Save yourself and don't take this class. The quizzes are impossible to study for and the class is organized terribly.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took CGT 270 in fall 2020. Dr. Byrd's class is incredibly disorganized, and is front-loaded with readings, labs, and lectures. The biggest issue was a grading scale where a 90% was considered failing until she changed it on the last day of class. Regardless, she is great to talk to outside of class, particularly if you are interested in research.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor was one of the worst teachers to ever teach a class that I've taken. The course was completely disorganized and there seemed to be technical issues all the time. We've had a meeting with the head of the department two times about this with hardly any change from her. If you don't have to take this course, then please don't take it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Despite being very disorganized, Dr. Byrd cares more about logistics than assignments. She doesn't make her expectations clear (read: no rubrics) and rarely responds to email. Your lab grade comes solely from completing outdated and unhelpful "Tableau training" videos on your own, not labs, and Tableau isn't formally taught despite using it in lab.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The combination of awful communication, often dropping assignments the night before they are due the following morning, or failing to make clear the requirements, and her rigorous unforgiving harshness in grading, combines to create a frustrating experience. If you get this teacher, switch immediately.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very disorganized. Vapid or needlessly long assignments. Easy, but extensive labs that can be a pain to finish during the given time. Professor is very unwavering and not empathetic. Utilized some statistical techniques/knowledge that wasn't taught in the class. Communication issues between her and everyone else, TAs included.