Cis 309 online uses the book, but the book doesnt explain how to really do the problems. You will have to learn by yourself by looking it up online.

Dr. Satpathy is excited about the field and has extensive knowledge, but doesnt convey it in a way to keep students engaged. He doesnt give you much credit in class for answering if its not exactly what hes looking for. His grammar in assignments and lectures are also rough, and he often seems lost during class when going over things.

Textbook "not required" good luck on figuring out how to prepare for his exams! Slides are too vague when it comes to test material. He is very knowledgable but fails to convey his knowledge to students. Be ware of lectures may go off topic sometimes, and in-class labs! P.S. Only one day of Office h's. Longest/ heaviest group project in history.

The professor is hilarious. I missed so many random points on little projects. The directions in assignments are not super specific, so you can lose points on anything. Lectures are him calling on random students to answer questions. Class could be taught in 5 minutes.

badest on at ASU don't take his class

Only 2 weeks into this course and it is already the worst class I have ever taken. The material is insanely boring and the professor doesn't help with that. Im not sure if the material is difficult or if he is just that bad at teaching it. He does not explain ANYTHING. Homework has no explanation and you are left walking blind through assignments.

Even if you watch the videos the quizzes & exams are extremely tough. There are some questions that you have to guess on, I dont know where he gets these questions from. He said textbook wasnt necessary but maybe it is. Theres a group project he is a harsh grader on. He seems to care, but his class structure isnt great. Dont know how I an A.

Dr Asish Satpathy has NO empathy, compassion or understanding for students with Group assignments. None. He says to email him and when you do, he does nothing. I had a B until a group member dropped the ball. I'd advised him prior to the final there were issues and still went from a 83 to a 79 (B- to a C+). WPC 300 students, stay away!

He's a horrible lecturer. Extremely boring to listen to. Speaks extremely slow and says "Um" like every other sentence like he doesn't know what he is talking about. What should take like 7 mins to explain takes him 20 mins cause he talks so slow. Puts me to sleep.

This class was extremely frustrating. Satpathy somehow found a way to make an already boring subject (stats) and make it even more boring. His lectures are simply him reading practically word for word from his handout. Feedback wasn't helpful. He assigns a group project too, which for an online class is really tough. I'd recommend someone else.

He doesn't give a sh#t about his students. When you contact him he doesn't answer. He requires you to meet with him to introduce your group project to him and he'll approve everything then turn around and gives a bad grade. Very unclear grading criteria. Introduces you to new required programs for analytics that do everything excel does but harder.

He assigned me to a group of 5 where nobody wanted to talk. I kept telling him about this but he seemed not to care. Every time I told him about the lack of communication, he told me to send them messages. I was really sick of trying to involve everybody every single day. Good luck on finding a good team or you will fail this class!

I hate every single thing about this class

Is his English good enough to teach this class? He doesnt seem he understand what we say in the presentation

Is this class data analytics or public speaking class? ASU should consider changing its format.

The material in this class is super helpful (JMP, Tableau, Excel) but he only dedicates 1 week to teaching these systems. His lectures were completely useless and I learned more through Google than anything. The group projects were a good way to practice using the systems that he didn't teach you about to analyze data, which is a helpful skill.

My biggest gripe is that he'd email everybody saying that he's holding some sort of zoom meeting to go over the group project at like 3pm on a Saturday with only 3 hours notice. He's always trying to hold out of class meetings and entices students w/ info that is needed to pass the class. Take another professor

This professor is literally hell on earth. I got an A in the class several semesters ago, but it was not worth the difficulty. Arbitrary grading and not sympathetic. The worst is that he puts on a mask of being nice. Avoid at all costs.

His class isn't that hard outside for his impossible exams but he will try to take off points for everything possible. His class is such a waste of time as this information is not useful at all. Just don't take this professor as he doesn't even care for his students.

His TA's grades everything and he does nothing. His lectures are like watching paint dry. I would take any other class because it is such useless information. All JMP does is stuff excel does but makes it harder. Just stay away from this class too bad he was the only professor I could take in the summer.

His score is this low for a reason. A group project that is just a pain in the backside with two exams that just drop everyone's grades. Don't take this professor and save yourself a headache.

This course is accelerated, however, that does not make up for the complete lack of effort and guidance by Professor Satpathy. The egregious neglect to assist students, or provide any necessary direction when advancing the course, shows a complete lackadaisical approach to their teaching, and as well, a total inability to teach the course

Not a fun class, he expects you to retain a semester's worth of material for one exam. He gives review videos that don't show you how to do the things on the actual exam. The only reason I passed was due to a friend's help. Worst grade at ASU so far.

This class is already difficult material, the professor makes it more difficult artificially, you could not improve, because results were hidden. Labs were vague compared to Homework, final exam was more theoretical rather than what you learned. Considering the practical material needs to be trained, multiple attempts *should* be allowed. Avoid

I would never recommend someone to take his class. If you have other options TAKE THEM. You have labs, assignments, and quizzes due every week (which he grades very hard on). Then you have a practical exam on those labs. Then you have a huge group project (basically did it on my own and I told him and he did nothing). Then an extremely hard final.

One of the weirdest teachers I have ever had. Does not like to admit he is wrong and if you look tired he will make you get up and take a lap. Roasted each group for group projects in front of other students. The excel/jmp assignments are hard,require a lot of detail and are graded by the TA. 80 question final too!

Terrible lectures and no textbook to fall back on. Very interesting topic and tools but absolutely horrible delivery of subject matter. Unable to match wrong answers on HW with correct solutions for learning purposes because prof says the info will get posted online. What a joke.

I've had many teachers and classes over the years that I haven't liked, but this WPC class with Satpathy has to be the worst. I genuinely feel anger and hatred towards this professor. He not only is terrible at teaching you anything, but his lecture videos are full of mistakes, accidents, and confusion. Getting an A requires some luck.

Terrible and not even able to do the work he teaches. I took wpc 300 and the modules he would teach in excel were littered with mistakes where he wouldn't know how to do something, took a long time to find where something was, and would put data in the wrong groups. I didn't even sign up for this professor but my professor used his lectures.

HW is extremely difficult Excel stuff that take hours and then go to class and listen to a lecture about the most Pre-K level "problem solving". He doesn't even attempt to help us understand the HW. Watch videos on the practice HW and use it to get at least an 80% on the actual HW. Says attendance isn't mandatory but then gives random pop-quizzes.

Homework is only on excel then you go to class and he rambles about stuff that has no correlation to the homework. Proceeds to get frustrated that no one pays attention because no one needs to since it doesn't pertain to the hw. Joke of a class makes the most kindergarten topic of solving problems seem like a high level topic it's hilarious.

Honestly the way the course is setup is stupid. It is a pretty easy course on Excel but the way the professor teaches just isn't effective and very boring. One of my least favorite professors. I-clicker is used.

Condescending attitude. Says attendance is not mandatory but has pop quizzes that end up being 5% of your grade. Lectures are unrelated to homework, and hw will take FOREVER. Join a groupchat or discord if you want to pass tbh. You have excel homework, concept quizzes, excel case studies, and one take home final. This class was such a headache.

If I had to choose between fighting the ape that ripped that ladies face off with my arms tied behind my back or take this class again with satpathy i would choose the ape.

Don't take this professor. The class isn't very hard but attendance is required and the lectures are painful to sit through. I'm a senior and this is the worst class I have taken. If you can take him online it may be better because you won't have to waste your time by attending his lectures.

Lectures are just overall useless and not needed, they rarely pertain to anything that the class is actually about, He talks way too much and is just very boring overall. WPC 300 is a cakewalk of a class but this professor makes it so much harder and annoying to deal with, take this class online if you can

This class and prof is awful dont take it. Its complicated excel stuff and he doesn't explain anything and just rambles. Avoid him at all costs

Disclaimer: He wasn't my prof BUT his lectures were used by my prof. Anyone saying that he's boring is correct. Lectures hard to follow and Satpathy is a bad lecturer overall.

I just took this class online, and holy crap this is one boring class. I was initially excited to learn about business strategy, but the lectures are extremely dull. Rambles on too much. It's extremely easy given that the everything is open note. They even allow chatGPT on the midterm and final. I didn't take this class seriously.