Reviews of professor Peter Claussen

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Decent amount of homework in this class, but it's a summer online course. You have an assignment every week. The work is pretty lengthy & hard to get done in time, but he seemed to be lenient on time. Lectures were good if new to R or SAS. Could use more direction and assistant on homework, expected a lot in comparison to lectures. LEARNED A LOT!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
No office hours, unclear homework instructions, only responds to e-mail at specific times, and just confuses the hell out of everyone with his responses to questions. TA's were also useless and unresponsive. Avoid this guy if you can because assignments get exponentially harder as the semester goes on and his rambling lectures don't help at all.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good professor, especially if you're new to SAS and/or R. Expect weekly homework and forum participation requirements. As others have mentioned, sometimes homework requirements can be a bit unclear or scattered around various materials, but he's always responsive to student questions. Appreciated his insights on real-world applied data science.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Heavy course load that gets exponentially more difficult as the course progresses. His lectures aren't helpful at all, so most of the time spent on homework is on outside research and self-teaching. He is responsive and grades easily which is cool I guess, but it's not very useful when the assignments have hardly any guidance to begin with.