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The purpose of this post is to solicit preferences with regard to course length. In the first iterations, the course was four weeks. The problem with that length is that it does not allow us anytime to learn about statistical models. We just learned about data, as you can see from the final projects for June 2021 and June 2022.
In July 2023, the course was extended to six weeks, mainly to provide time for students to learn some statistical models and then use them for their final projects. As you can see from the final projects, this worked OK, but not great. So, my default assumption is that the course should be 8 weeks this summer. But maybe not! Maybe that is too long for most students.
Please answer this poll.
I don’t promise to be bound by the result but I am always interested in student preferences.
I quit the course (maybe it was 2022) because it turned out to be much more work than I had anticipated, so personally, I would be for stretching it out, i.e. 8. I'm not positive at this point if I'd sign up. I want to, but I'd make sure I have the time to commit first.