Montalan, Jann Railey E.

MS CS · Mr. · Faculty member, Ateneo Social Computing Lab

Computer Science (computational epidemiology, metapopulation modeling, Filipino natural language processing, social computing)

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Master of Science in Computer Science, Straight Computer Science, Ateneo de Manila University · 2019

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Swift Zebra

Good prerecorded SQL lectures, never returned our labs

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CourseCSCI 25

Hi! I had sir Railey Montalan last semester for CSCI 25 (Introduction to Programming and Databases) as part of my minor. He’s co teacher with sir choob. The first half was basically python taught by sir Choob and the 2nd half was SQL (structured query language) taught by sir Railey. He was very good in delivering prerecorded lectures, and since SQL is a bit of an easier prog langu (its not really a language per se, more of a domain-specific syntax in database management systems), it’s easier to digest all lab activities in one go. I’m not sure if he grades fairly kasi he never returned any of our labs (si sir choob lang? or unless he checked it and we didn’t know?? HAHHAHA istg) but overall, just show him na you’re eager to learn even if it gets really complex. He’s also available for consultations since a lot of problems sa labs ay context-specific. If you ask a lot of questions, which i did, he’d see that you’re really out there trying to learn zzz (it’s best to loop yourself in his thread emails as well as discord! yeah we set it up bec discs profs are just cool) His finals was ez af! hahaha fill in the blanks lang for a query tapos table analysis. Mas difficult lang yung labs and final project (for us we had a business SQL project with executive report). + Look for good groupmates, and set up a really good work dynamics and coordination system!! dw you’ll learn as you go along, no need to have background whatsoever!! Easy B+/A with effort + stackoverflow 😉 (make sure to cite your sources ahehe)more

Daring Koala

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161.03 right? I'm a student of his during online semestral! He's a really great prof and he explains the concepts well. He will explain most concepts of social computing and you'll be dealing with data mostly from Twitter for most activities. He often related the topics to the current social and political climate and you'll really learn a lot from him! For the coding part of the lessons, he will provide you with copies of his Jupyter notebook (you'll be coding primarily in python). You'll mostly be taught how to use Tweepy, pandas, numpy and matplotlib. He'll explain the code but the code itself has useful and extensive comments. For most activities, you'll just be adapting the codes from these notebooks and adjusting accordingly. For us there's a midterm and final project. For both, you have free reign on what you want to "research" on. Iirc our project 1 was to look at social media data regarding a movie, song, or any media we were interested in. For Project 2 it was very free reign on what we want to learn about but we still scraped data from Twitter. He's very kind and approachable and easy to reach out to for consultations. I don't know if you'll have any reason to hate him or regret getting him. He's amazing 💖 (I know I sort of rambled but I hope I made sense and anyone else who wants any clarification or elaboration on this can pm me haha)more

Swift Zebra

Good prerecorded SQL lectures, never returned our labs

positive

CourseCSCI 25

Daring Koala

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