Cecil Gorman | CSE 250

Request and Review Letter

This semester I have learnt far more than expected and although I’m not about to claim to be a
savant or extremely proficient, I am excited and confident to learn more.

In this course I learnt to use Python and its related functions and libraries like Altair, Panda’s,
scikit-learn and more to clean data sets, create data frames, graphs, tables and even went so far as to
create machine learning classification models to predict results. Topped it all off with the tools to work
collaboratively with others through Git & GitHub on VS Code. This coming from someone that has only
dabbled in C++. Most of all I learnt that there is not only more than one wat to skin a cat, but there are
also much better ways to do it.

More than anything this semester has taught me that I can learn new things I thought were way
to advanced and needed far more experience than I had or could achieve while at BYU-I. During this
semester I heard an awful lot about R. Yet we did not get to work with it at all. As per recommendations,
I have registered for CSE 350 and look forward to learning more about wrangling and visualizing data.
Hopefully, this class will be similar at least in spirit, to CSE 250 with Bro Hathaway.

It has been strange to get accustomed to the grading and teaching style this semester. Honestly,
it is refreshing. I miss the predictability of canvas but will happily trade it for the practicality that has
been applied to our grading and the syllabus.

Out of the six projects four of them are 5’s, with one ungraded (probably a five) and one four for
a projected 29 points on the projects. I met the checkpoint requirements with 4 full mark mid-project
checkpoints and 4 methods and calculation checkpoints. Was an active participant both in and outside
of class, although I only attended Data Science Society once. I believe my coding challenge will be a 2,
and with more time it could easily be a 5. I request an A.