Reviews of professor Irene Vrbik

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Irene is a very nice person and I enjoyed her as a professor because she makes things very accessible. She's extremely understanding and records and streams her lectures, which is great. However, I am biased as the course I had with her (DATA101) is very easy.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
No textbook, all her notes are from the slides. the slides only give the most basic understanding of the subject, and it is expected you look at outside sources on how to complete assignments, etc. you will not do well on the exams if you strictly read the slides, study the assignments instead. boring class, fine professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Really awesome class and teacher! All lectures are recorded and explanations are clear an concise. Tons of availability outside of class. Assignments are fun and let you practice using the models you learn in class. Probably my favourite course at this school.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Some people say she's terrible but she's really just an average prof who is nice and wants students to succeed. Statistics is always hard, every intro stats course is difficult. At least she's nice. As for COSC/DATA 301 - it's really easy if you took COSC 111/121 but there's a lot of science students who didn't and take it and they struggle.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Irene is one of the worst profs I've had. Lectures are boring and she communicates the material poorly, she makes frequent mistakes on assignments, doesn't encourage participation, doesn't tell you what's going to be covered on midterms/final, and requires double pass. Final disproportionately emphasized 1 (seemingly random) concept

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
All her assignments and exams have mistakes where you literally get it wrong because of her. Also there were so many mistakes in the test gradings. Don't take her class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Took this class last year, it was my first introduction to R and data science and I found the content easy to follow and understand. The labs were good prep for the assignments and tests. Lectures were available on zoom and consistently posted online. Other than answering questions and giving her lecture she didn't really interact with students.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Initially, it was difficult to follow along due to her speed, however lectures were properly recorded and posted online which honestly helped me the most. She is clear and concise, if you put in the effort, she is quite easy to understand. The content is mostly theoretical which is presented beautifully in her slides.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I haven't started the course yet but Dr. Vrbik is super caring. I emailed her back and forth and she's been super accommodating and helpful. I'm excited to take this course as I feel I have the support from the prof.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really like this professor. Sure she does make a few typos and mistakes here and there but she gives out useful powerpoints and she records her lectures.