STAT 157 (2017) : Student comments on the 6 minute talks

• 0041: Enthusiastic presentation, nice verbal explanation of an underlying math idea.
• 0319: Interesting and well-explained analysis of a statistical procedure in baseball; putting formulas on handout would make it easier to follow.
• 0886: Interesting topic, articulate and well-paced presentation and examples, though a little light on content.
• 1072: Nice topic, well prepared, clear presentation and board work.
• 2099: Nice topic, enthusiastic presentation of a good story.
• 2452: Enthusiastic presentation, but handout would be been easier to follow.
• 3174: Nice topic, but wasted time writing on board instead of doing handout.
• 3181: Great topic, enthusiastic presentation and content, though a bit too fast for clear understanding.
• 3522: Interesting topic, well-paced and enthusiastic presentation, could have given a bit more math depth.
• 3628: Good topic, but talked from script too fast, making it hard to follow.
• 3750: topic potentially interesting but talk hard to follow -- too much like Statistics lecture. Handwriting too small and voice too soft..
• 4656: Creative choice of interesting topic, but the statistical analysis was too hard for most students to follow.
• 4767: Nice topic and presentation; more examples with data on handout would have helped.
• 5091: Imaginative choice of topic, though the statistical model and analysis didn't provide much novel insight.
• 5415: Nice topic, enthusiastic and humorous presentation made a good speaking style, would have liked a bit more content.
• 5671: Interesting original technical idea, though the conceptual background was unfamiliar to many students.
• 5848: clear explantion of fun and engaging topic.
• 6289: Enthusiastic presentation of model and conclusions, though model seems rather unrealistic.
• 6448: Interesting topic; the math content could be better organized.
• 7110: Professional presentation of very interesting Malcolm Gladwell style topic and examples; would prefer more "talk" style than "read written paper" style.
• 7879: Enthusiastic speaking style, easy to follow, nicely tied in with lecture.
• 7910: Good topic and good presentation, both speech and use of whiteboard.
• 7967: Creative choice of novel (to this class) topic, enthusiastic and clear explanations, cute graphics, though some quantitative data on a handout would have helped.
• 7973: Good explanation of math topic, though board diagram would be better on handout.
• 8329: Imaginative choice of topic; but hard to follow description of experiment -- data on handout would have helped.
• 9112: Interesting topic, well organized content and examples. Would prefer more "talk" style than "read written paper" style.
• 9236: Imaginative choice of topic and good explanations.
• 9843: Interesting topic, clear presentation of his own ideas.