Reviews of professor John Wiedenmann

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's very nice and understanding of students needing to miss class or get extra help. I recommend working with other students to complete the homework assignments because they can be confusing. This course is entirely coding and statistics, so be prepared to do a lot of work that's unfamiliar to most Ecology students.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Really great guy, made a difficult topic a lot less daunting and was great at introducing students who have no previous history in coding to R studio.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This semester was Dr. Wiedenmann's first time teaching Analytical Methods with a newly revised syllabus- I loved the course. However, a majority of the time spent in class was on Microsoft Excel, where students brought their own laptops. This caused issues delaying class where people had specific questions and he would answer them individually.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The lectures are very statistics heavy, so some background on statistics or even taking a class on it beforehand can be useful. There is some coding with the mandatory downloadable R Studio, but Professor Wiedenmann works through the software step by step. Most of this class involves hotfixes to your code in the homeworks and final assignment.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Wiedenmann is a really nice guy and I would absolutely have him as a teacher again. He seems a wee bit unapproachable, but that's just how he appears. He's so funny and very accommodative to your needs. The material for anal. methods is difficult, so just make sure you're a part of the class groupme. He always encourages working w peers first

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures had nothing to do with anything we were tested on. Feel free to skip. R tutorial attendance is necessary though. He was unwilling to give much help on the homeworks and admitted to not answering every email he gets from students- he will ignore you. Ask lots of questions anyways to see what you can get out of him. Start hw early.