Reviews of professor Michael Platt

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He's a really nice guy. I learn a lot in his class

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Platt is a good guy, he's passionate about the topic and tries to make the class interesting. He goes pretty quickly through lectures, so be sure to keep up. Lecture quizzes at the end of each class can surprisingly be difficult even if you pay attention. He gives weekly assignments, but some weeks you'll have multiple assignments. Tests are curved

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Refuses to accommodate students. Unkind when you ask for help.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Mr. Platt elaborated online content to enable us to catch up with when we couldn't attend in class lectures. The course covers most of the supervised learning and unsupervised learning topics and requires hard work throughout the semester. It's very important to ask questions in a timely manner because there're a lot content to cover in the course.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I found this class to be super rewarding and is necessary for someone who will be working with Excel daily following college. The class is more of an extension of the two required BANA courses. You learn everything from conditional formatting to Monte Carlo to VBA. There are 10 homework's and 3 exams. Platt is the best professor for this class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Homework every week but his TA is quite lenient with grading. All you need to do is go through his slides. Be careful of simulation chapter

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is super challenging but Platt gives you tons of work to help with your grade. He's very helpful and responsive in class. There are lecture and lab quizzes. The exams are the same problems as the lecture quizzes. The group projects weren't too bad because they are practically copying and pasting the information you learned in the lab.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class became one of my favorites. By no means is it an easy class if you are not a BANA major, however, I was able to learn a lot from this and it is forgiving even if you are struggling with some of the lectures or modules. It May not be an easy A, however, if you put in the effort you will learn a lot about excel and spreadsheets!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class was the first time I used R, so a huge learning curve. Platt goes through everything in the code and the meanings and is always open for questions. Theres five hw and final project done in groups. There are six quizzes. I heard he has added lab quizzes since. Provided very helpful R scrips that you manipulate for hw. Again, ask questions

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Platt is a good professor and good person. The course itself is mildly difficult. Lecture quiz after almost every class. You will need to learn R fast. As a professor, Platt is reasonable and has office hours. His TA would grade the assignments harshly but I was able to get points back. Don't skip class because he goes through examples.