"The mini projects were very helpful. I would have been much more confused going into the final project if we hadn't had the previous exposure to R and it's functionality. Also the lenient grading was much appreciated by all students considering the lack of collective knowledge of R."

"How hands on it was."

"I liked the way the grading system was laid out. We had multiple pop quizzes but only the top 5 were taken. I thought, for the most part, quizzes were very easy if you paid attention to that class which provided an incentive for me to pay attention to everything and engage. If the class as a whole still didn't understand the concept, you would go through for lengthy periods of time to understand it. The final project was great in that you left it open to us to decide what we wanted to do. Understanding the idea of the model was a little more difficult but it was still a fun project that I plan to feature in my own portfolio."

"Pop quizzes were annoying but helpful overall for retaining the information. If nothing else, I have something concrete to study due to the lack of a midterm, normal quizzes, and homework. You yourself are pretty enthusiastic, friendly, and actually helpful to the students despite how much we whine which I'm sure we all appreciate. I can count on one hand how many other professors are even remotely close to your level of teaching. At the very least, this data mining class seems a lot better and more passable than the ones taught by other professors I've heard about (not naming names)."

"hands-on project"

"The explanations to the concepts and methods are very clear and the projects are also helpful. Btw, you're very handsome. :)"

"Bonus opportunity Max taking the highest five grades instead of any five grades for the pop quizzes."

"Fun and interesting"

"Well structured, course content very interesting too"

"The pop quizzes and real world talks."

"You were very generous, cordial in conducting the course. Your endeavour was great!"

"The slides were well designed and were easy to follow."

"Assignments were good,involved implementation of different data mining techniques I got to learn R.It was good class.Thank you Azim"

"I really appreciated how you wouldn't mind going over a topic multiple times if you had noticed that someone didn't understand."

"This class had the best structure. I think this was a really good way of learning and teaching. Apart from the course I have learned some teaching skills as well :D"

"the slides"

"Projects were good overall, good for practical practice. More on each would have been nice, then again admittedly most started on them the night before."

"Pop quiz that makes students come to class."

"You clearly understand the subject and always seeking what's wrong and how to improve it, the down side to that is we were lab rats"

"Instruction on R. R was the hardest part of this course. We were told that it's not an R course and that was why we were not given any class instruction on R. To put it another way: we were told to write a short story in a literature class... and write it in French... even though practically no one in the class knew French to a worthwhile degree. And no French instruction was provided in the course. Yet we were expected to perform as if we knew French syntax and semantics to produce story without errors. Please note that R is incredibly useful for data mining, but it is not easy to learn on your own. I would take a full course on R if it was offered."

"Less stress."

"Maybe clarify the idea of a model early on with a few detailed, real-world examples of how data was used to generate a model. I understand the idea but how it was actually created in R was a bit confusing for me. Some basic in-class walkthroughs using R would be very useful prior to the first project. If you do this, the difficult of the mini-projects could be increased a bit as well as I spent most of my time researching very basic concepts in R for the first 2-3 projects. No one ever had to give their stories about why they were late to class :("

"If R is used as a language alongside the class, it needs to be taught more in class or with a lab rather than just leaving it to the students to learn. Languages lose any usefulness they may have when learned incorrectly or with too little time devoted to them, which unfortunately isn't something measurable by someone learning them for the first time."

"optional language choice"

"It's better to allow us to choose the language what we want to use when finishing the project."

"More R clarification "

"More tests during the semester"

"Please less memes in the slides"

"I think it could be improved by adding more in class assignments or a lab to give a better understanding of the material."

"Besides using slides, you could in some places use boards efficiently. You did that but it was very small in amount."

"Extra practice alongside the quizzes would be nice. "

"class timings"

"How the material is presented. The PowerPoints are helpful but it was too much content to learn in one class, regardless of how long the class is."

"There is nothing in particular I want to point out. I gave 5 for everything except a 4 for mini-projects, only because they were very time consuming but that is the part where a student needs to improve on their programming skills."

"better project"

"slides are good, but some lack context and depth, its a hard balance but going back to can be difficult to go back and understand what your talking about. Would have been nice to have some class time for R. Specifically similarities were taught without much context on use besides attribute type"

"Rather than just going over the slides it would have been better if the problem were done in r practically in class "

"I'm sure you'll find out"