Reviews of professor Phillip Yates

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
spent $3000 for a "asynchronous" online class during the COVID-19! shame for DePaul and their math department. NO office hours, ambiguous email reply, not willing to explain questions in details. A $50 coursera certificate class might be even more helpful. Unfortunately you can't avoid taking class with him as he is only prof. in 441-442-443 seq.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Do not understand the bad ratings, he's great! Learned so much in this class, and was very clear and communicative. If you don't like to learn on your own, his teaching style might not work for you, but if you like to learn by yourself then you will be just fine! Two exams, two projects, weekly homework, and one final project.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
you have to say this class is actually very organized, with each week covers a multivariate analysis topic, however, there is literally no lecture, all self-learning, after the quarter ends, feel like learned nothing, ridiculous. I could have rated him 4 stars for the past classes but this quarter only 1 star.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
lots of homework, materials covered not so clear.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Yates is awesome. He really cares about you succeeded so he stands a lot of stupid questions. Easy to meet up with before the exams (3) or just for homework. Real geeky and uses real work examples to keep you interested. Homework online. Good man.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Yates was awesome! He is very understanding when it comes to deadlines (even though I'd say the amount of homework he assigns is reasonable). He's also always willing to meet outside of class, which I would recommend. Plus, if you're not necessarily a coding whiz he makes R easy.