cgreene
commented
8 years ago - I think we spent too much time on machine learning and not enough time on RNAseq analysis. I feel like especially for the RNAseq section, we just learned how to run the code, not what it was actually doing.
- Additionally, we didn't go into how to QC RNAseq data at all. I think that would have added a lot to the class.
- Maybe just one or 2 extra days covering that.
- The assignments took a very long time to complete. At the beginning of the course, the directors said that the prelabs and homework would take no more than 30 minutes to complete. The homework would take sometimes 3 hours to do
- Sometimes things weren't that clear bc it was a complex topic. The projects were hard to have time for since we still have 3 homework a week and other classes
- This course definitely took more time than I expected we were originally told that the assignments should take about half an hour to an hour every other night, but there were quite a few that took me several hours to complete. I think it would have been better if the assignments ended an extra week earlier so that we could focus on our final projects.
- There were very minor weaknesses of the course. First, many of the lessons required two hours worth of work, which reduced the amount of time necessary for laboratory rotations. Second, the platform of SageMathCloud was often glitchy. The second point may be unavoidable though.
bvoight
ksiewert