GREAT teacher!! i wish he taught more classes at tufts. i didn't think it was possible to make statistics an exciting class- but he does it! super clear lectures, very funny, helpful, available for questions... best professor i've had yet!

nice professor, good material. I liked him a lot. I wish he taught more classes here.

I REALLY DISLIKE THIS GUY. His exams are completely different from the practice questions and what we learn in class. If you have the choice, this EC 13 under Thomas Downes. He is much easier. I wish Swingle did not teach at Tufts. He brings us down.

Professor Swingle is amazing!!! Very clear, engaging lectures and board notes, tireless during office hours, really cares about students. If you go to class and do the work, you will UNDOUBTEDLY do well. What more can you ask?

I felt surprised fairly often by his exam questions (they come from the PSets, not the review questions posted on Blackboard). I didn't do terribly well in the class, but he was pretty engaging one-on-one and he gave us cookies once. Nice enough guy, but remember about the PSet-to-test conversion. And don't buy the textbook-- it's useless.

One of the most hard working profs I have seen at Tufts. Simply an awesome prof!!! Incredibly encouraging and very good at explaining stats. I never thought I would love stats but Prof Swingle made it both fun and interesting. His exams were difficult but fair - questions mirrored pset questions closely. If you do psets, you will do well on exams.

Great professor! Helpful and engaging.

Amazing class!!!!!!!!!

Awesome prof!!!!!!!!! I learned a lot and he is very encouraging.

Very helpful, explains material very well in class. I received a pretty good grade and felt prepared. Gives a lot of review and practice material before exams so you can feel confident and prepared. Very good teacher overall!

DO NOT if you can help it, take his 8 AM class. Although the material interesting and he explains it fairly well, his voice will put you right back to sleep.

Professor Swingle is a great professor! Hated waking up for the 8am but honestly was the best class that could have been that early. Bigger lecture but he is really engaging. Helpful in office hours too. Wants everyone to do well. The material you have to study and he makes it as clear as possible. Go to recitations!!!

Professor Swingle is extremely kind and patient. His teaching style made waking up for an 8:05AM class on Tuesdays and Fridays more manageable.

I would definitely recommend Professor Swingle to other students because he was very enthusiastic with every lecture, even at 8:05 and is truly interested in the material that he presents. He was always wiling to fully explain concepts and problems in office hours as well, which was very helpful to me and other students. I enjoyed that he often had

I loved seeing the way that statistics is relevant to our everyday lives and can provide concrete quantitative answers to questions that can otherwise be seen as subjective. It made me see that on some level, we can quantify things like inequity and injustice, and I found that very powerful. This class also made me feel confident applying statistic

His class made me think more deeply about how people make inferential decisions. I was really impressed by how much effort and enthusiasm he put into the class.

showed me the relevance of statistics to important aspects of civic engagement, namely politics and how polling works.

I appreciate all the clear effort Professor Swingle puts into his 80+ page lecture handout. For those who have never taken Stats before, it is a particularly helpful guide especially to take notes on at the beginning of the course. I will likely be keeping my packet for a long time in the future.

I enjoyed the real life examples provided in class that provided reference for the application of the skills we were learning. Ex: the drafting problem, the grains of sand, etc.

The lectures were the most helpful. The lecture handouts were also good for following along. The problem sets were increasingly difficult but always manageable.

The materials can be pretty boring at times, but I think that's just how stats is. Professor Swingle has tried his best to make it engaging!

The professor really loves statistics and it shows. He explains the material clearly and in multiple ways so we have the best chance of understanding it. The tests are difficult, but fair as are the problem sets.

Problem sets were very good for me to keep up with learning and practicing problems

The printed out notes were extremely helpful for me. They were very detailed and a great reference.

Prof Swingle's course provides an insight into searching, sorting, and understanding data through problem sets and ideas learned in class.

It's really hard to make stats fun, but Professor Swingle's way of teaching stats made me really engaged. I understood the materials really well mostly due to the fact that I listen in class.

Problem sets were very difficult at times and took up a huge portion of my time, but they were extremely helpful and effective in teaching me the material and making me understand the concepts.

Hire Swingle for every class.

Problem sets were good for cementing what we went over during the week, the pre-made packet of notes was a great idea.

It took a while to get the second exam back, and I was really anxious to see how I did. Professor Swingle is awesome; he genuinely cares and is always respectful (even when people ask stupid questions or ask things he has previously explained). He has really inspired me to get excited to go to class, and I could not have asked for a better fundam

Swingle is the best of the best. End of story.

The tests are brutal but he's really helpful in OH

Really hard tests that are worth 90% of your grade combined, good luck ur gonna need it. P.S. listen attentively in lecture + make sure you do the psets and understand them

A paragon among social science professors. The final was weirdly brutal, but everything is graded on a curve. You are never stuck with your grade in this class; there are always more opportunities to get the A.

Swingle was the absolute GOAT. Stats can be pretty dry at times, but Swingle always did his best to give an engaging and informative explanation for each component of the course. His Canvas is incredibly organized, and his lecture handouts mean you'll never get lost in the course. In OH, I found him to be really caring and invested in his students.

I got to understand much more deeply the statistical concepts that I have been reading about in research papers, both in terms of what they mean and how they can be found. Swingle was just awesome!

Professor Swingle was one of the nicest and most entertaining economics professors I've had at Tufts. An effective teacher with plenty of interesting stories and applications of course material to keep students interested. Keep doing what you're doing!

A perfect prof! I don't just toss that label around. Prof Swingle is the best professor I've had at Tufts. He is intelligent, articulate, passionate, kind, and funny. As a senior, it's unfortunate I will not be able to take anymore classes with him as prof. My only complaint is that it's a difficult course, but I came to Tufts to be challenged.

Professor Swingle is very funny, nice and an all around great professor! He explains everything very well and the lecture handouts were very helpful. He is also super helpful and accessible!

You can tell when he is lecturing that he is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about what he's teaching. He remembered my name after the very first conversation of the semester. When I wanted to learn more, he even took the time to go through his collection and give me a fantastic book recommendation.

He is a super nice and accommodating guy. Teaching a class of 150 students has to be challenging but Professor Swingle was one of the best profs I've had so far at Tufts. Very enthusiastic every day in class. I feel like I learned statistics very well.

Prof. Swingle has been one of the best economics professors I've had at Tufts so far. He made the class engaging and well organized, and made it easy for students who put time in to succeed. Outside of class, he was very helpful in office hours and answering questions. Overall, it was a pleasure to take a class with him.

Professor Swingle was always so willing to help students. I visited his office hours several times and he was always very helpful in answering my questions. He also makes an effort to learn students' names despite it being a large lecture class, which was really nice.

Explains material very clearly and always stops to answer questions. Great professor, would recommend the class to anyone!

Very experienced and knowledgeable. Extremely friendly and approachable.

Professor Swingle is amazing - he is incredibly funny, witty, and just a great human being. You can see how much he cares about his students in every second of the course. He provides so many resources for exam preparation that I feel like I should have no excuse to perform as badly as I did.

He's a great professor! I wish I could take another course with him! Prof Swingle gave me another language to understand and assess the world around me. Everyday researchers take samples of populations and infer generalized conclusions from those samples. Statistics taught me a concrete way to approach assessing what I read every day.

I liked how this course gave me a greater understanding of why statistics can be used as a tool to analyze different problems about the world - and we only scratched the surface in this course

I definitely would. Professor Swingle is approachable, clear. and willing to explain things further whenever a student needs. I really enjoyed his teaching style and his anecdotes were always a fun break from occasionally dry material.

The lectures were engaging and, along with the problem sets, prepared me for the exams. There was nothing I thought that needed improvement. The class was well-organized and executed, and I learned a lot!

One of the good EC 13 professors. Some are bad and he is a good one. Super organized and great guy who wants to help you learn. The content is not the easiest but with a little effort you will do well.

I really like the instructor and would recommend him to other students. Exams were a lot like the problem sets (some pset questions were repeated on exams). This class also helped me re-evaluate the way I view learning. Since we were given many diff ways to approach problems, I learned that learning is not simply memorizing one approach.

I'm taking Ec 13 now and so far love the class. I did ask the prof about typical final grades for his course and he showed me last year's percentages: 40% of students got an A or A-, 33% got a B+ or B, 10% got a B-, and the rest got a C+, C, or C-. I don't know what others think but knowing 83% of students got a B- or better is reassuring.

graded based on problem sets and 3 exams, not a super hard class and he teaches super clearly and exams are straightforward and expected.

a good lecturer and generally makes the content seem accessible. he moves fast so you need to pay attention, but all his lecture materials are posted. it can be difficult to study bc he has so many documents, but his course schedule is awesome and he posts lots of practice problems. super test heavy, 85% of the grade but psets pad your grade

Swingle is adorable. He cares so much for his students and he truly wants to see people succeed. He allows you to submit your practice problems 3 times. Tests are somewhat difficult but he gives a generous curve and recitations are very helpful though they are not required.

Never believed I would get an A in this class but miracles happen. Tests are completely fair: more overwhelming than anything. More about assessing comprehension than math based. All the HW is difficult but makes sure you don't fall behind. Lectures are helpful as Professor Swingle is very excited about the subject! Be prepared to study though!

One of the best professors I've had at Tufts. Really cares about the student doing well and goes out of his way to make sure you know exactly what is going to be on the test.

Prof. Swingle is possibly the best professor I've ever had for a math class. He made every single stat concept so easy to grasp. The Psets are not hard, be ready to dedicate like 2 hours a week for them. The exams are very fair and if you study you will do very well. He gives so much material for test prep. He's also such a nice and funny guy.

Very straightforward class. Attendance isn't mandatory, but go to class because he teaches you exactly what you need to know for the psets and exams. He offers plenty of study materials and wants you to do well.

Amazing stats professor! Made learning stats easy to understand and gave plenty of resources in the lecture to understand the steps and methods. Multiple tries on problem sets and exam questions are taken from the psets. Lecture is important, but Swingle makes it engaging and worthwhile. Came out of the class enjoying stats