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The course offers interesting material and promotes strong interaction during class sessions. The evaluation consists of a feasible group project with favorable grading potential and a demanding final exam where high scores are challenging to achieve. I overall recommend this course, though it differs somewhat from past student experiences.

The final grade is based on a quiz (10%), group work (20%), and a final exam (70%). You can choose your group members. The professor does not communicate very well. The course content is quite introductory, focusing on basic accounting concepts and exercises; for example, taxes are not covered. Nevertheless, the course can be useful for understanding concepts applied in other courses. Getting a grade above 16/20 is challenging, despite the relatively basic content. Do not underestimate the course just because the material seems easy. The exam relies heavily on memorising and applying different types of exercises. The professor gives problem sets, with solutions for each week.

40% of the final grade depends on a group project, with students randomly assigned to groups. The professor refuses to disclose individual group project grades, making it difficult to understand how the grade was determined. The workload of the groupwork is significantly higher than in other courses. The lectures have very dense lecture slides, which reach around 100 slides per lecture. The exam consists of two open-ended opinion questions, and the professor explicitly stated that “if I find your response boring, you will get a terrible grade,” making the grading criteria seem highly subjective. Getting a grade above 17/20 is very difficult, with only one student achieving a 19 and there were no 20s. I recommend starting the group project in the first week, as it requires a substantial amount of work. Use PowerPoint rather than Word to develop the project, as the best-graded projects were submitted as slide decks.

Theoretical Professor Rodrigo Bruno explains the concepts very well and has no issue answering any question you might have during the lecture. The content is also pretty interesting, I would have only liked for it to be more Kubernetes/DevOps/CI/CD focused. At least to me, those were the most interesting parts of the course and they were either not even evaluated (in the mini-tests) or skimmed over faster than I would have liked. Labs Very well explained and detailed. It is not mandatory to go and there were no assessments made during these. Our TA seemed to not be fully on par with what the project statement asked though. Mini-tests 5, multiple-choice, lasting 20m each and done on Moodle and on every Monday (but the first and last of the quarter) before class started. Not too hard, you were evaluated on the material of the previous two theoretical lectures plus a paper you had to read yourself. 12-13/16 questions were about the lectures 3-4/16 were about the paper (There were never questions regarding the evaluation part of each paper, at least I cannot recall any.) NOTE: From what I was told, two year ago there were no exams or mini-tests, only a project. Last year, take-home lab mini-tests were added and graded. This year, the take home mini-tests were substituted for in-class theoretical mini-tests. Next year there might be a mandatory exam and no mini-tests, who knows, just beware of the evaluation methods for your curricular year when choosing this subject. Project The goal was to make a recommendation app, which has to be micro-service based and had to have AI integrated into it (for example, by having Ollama run an LLM and the application user prompting the LLM). We also had to deploy the application (the services, databases, NGINX/Haproxy and Ollama) with Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes to GCP, which was the most interesting part. In the end you also had to have an advanced feature, they gave you 4 options: Persistent State - you had to save the database content persistently somewhere not on the GCP VMs, and load it when the app started CI/CD - every commit would redeploy the app or service Autoscaling kubernetes pods based on load DevSecOps You also had to create a 10m video and publish it on Youtube explaining the project: its components, how they were connected, how deployment was done and the advanced feature you chose. The video link would then be added to the report you uploaded into Fenix.

Theoretical Classes Professor Paulo Carreira makes classes really enjoyable, he is pretty enthusiastic. I also felt like the slides were enough to study for the exam.\ Regardless, there are notes in https://leicmybox.org/MEIC/1%C2%BA%20Semestre/AID/Resumos/ and in https://github.com/ana-mc-almeida/meic/tree/main/courses/dai. Additionally, at least in Tagus, for half the quarter the theoretical classes would end way early, sometimes we would only have 40m classes whereas the class is supposed to be 2h (or 1h:40m) long, which is always nice.\ \ Labs\ The labs are VERY easy to follow and have pretty detailed instructions. They are also not mandatory. Professor Paulo Carreira (who was the one present in my lab classes) was mostly on his computer for the whole duration of the lab and did not speak unless you had some issue with the lab or a question, which he answered without issues. \ Exam This year the exam was an overview of what you did in the project and why, the exam was basically only about the project. There were questions about how you would merge data, clean it, load it into dimensions and into the fact table, which choices you made and why and so on, the only outlier was probably the Edit Distance question. Oh and yes, questions regarding how you work with a specific tool such as PSW (to create the cube), PRD(to create reports), Saiku(to explore the data) and Hop(to create the ETL pipeline) and what components you would use in each tool and where you would drag stuff came up in the exam. Some topics like NoSQL, BigData and Data Privacy also did not come up in the exam.\ \ Project Pretty straight forward, similar to the labs themselves. Be careful though because even though a professor might give you an hint on how to do things, it does not mean different TAs have the same opinion, we had a TA give us an answer and the Lectures professor saying the opposite. Be sure you use all the fact tables for all the analysis you will hand in, do not limit yourself to using a single one. Speaking about handing in stuff and deliverables, I found it weird that we had to hand in files explaining what queries we did to answer a specific project statement question, their respective chart and what conclusions we obtained, but you had to, additionally, hand in a 60-100 slide long powerpoint with screenshots, the same exact queries and graphs and the same explanation of the answers you obtained. It simply felt like a useless duplicate most of the time. IMO it has way too many deliverables.

Workload light, for the quizzes it's easy to get 20 (weight 20% if total grade). Final exam (80% of final grade) it's harder than mock exam, but it's very manageable. There is no material to study, but you have to create your own notes with AI. Teacher is very engaging.

The course is very easy and very little workload, however the professor doesn't give good grade. They are curved and he is picky, 14/15 is the most common grade

Research Methods is an interesting course where you learn important statistical concepts and how to apply them to real situations. The professor is really good, very organised and always available to help students. Whenever you have a question, she is happy to explain it. The PDFs from the classes and all the materials provided by the professor are more than enough to understand the topics. The quizzes during classes are quite easy, and the group project is also very manageable. However, don't underestimate the exam. It is quite demanding, and the multiple-choice questions can be tricky, with several options that seem correct. My advice is to understand the concepts well and practise harder exercises, because the exam is much more challenging than the quizzes.

The teacher is really organized, where all content in class slides is enough for the exam. The class exercises provided are great to study to understand how to interpret outputs and analyze graphs. The teacher is super approachable if you don’t understand material. Plus, her explanations are not super complete since the teacher does assume that you have a base in statistics, hence some explanations might seem vague if you have not had statistical courses before. Regarding assessment, quizzes are easy, the project is great practice for the exam, and AI usage is incentivized. The exam I felt a bit short on time, however it was accessible if you understood the material well. For tips, I recommend testing yourself on output interpretations using an AI tool such as Claude or ChatGPT based on the class exercises, so that you know how to interpret a result, how to describe it and provide an appropriate limitation or recommendation. For the multiple choices reading the slides carefully is enough.

The professor is good and supportive. Have quizes every week so need to read the materials. The exam is with choices and open questions. Attending to classes helps a lot to multiple choices.

Somewhat of a easier course, apart from the group + individual assignment alongside a small timed quiz that asks you to provide a executive summary of your individual assignment. Studied for it in 2 days and got a good grade. Overall chill course. The professor is from the US and nice experience in the Investor Relations field. Recommend.

its a nice course, not that useful for someone who isn't from a business family. The exam itself was open-book and not so hard, just a bit of a time constraint. I prepared the exam in a couple of days.

Digital Strategy & Markets is a quite demanding course, with several quizzes and case studies throughout the trimester, so it is important to keep up with the workload. The professor is approachable and always available to clarify doubts. However, there are not many practice exercises available, which can make preparing for the exam more difficult, especially because the exam is more challenging than the exercises provided.

Extremely easy. No assignments, and only a 100% final exam which was also not difficult.

Classes are’t very engaging. The problem sets are very easy, and the presentation is also quite simple since it’s only 10 minutes long and there are six people in the group. The exam, although similar to the problem sets, was too long

This was a great course! If you are a part of a business family, I would really recommend taking it. The teacher, Sandi, is very knowledgeable about family businesses, and passionate about engaging students during class. The majority of the workload consisted of turning in 3 group reflection papers about sessions in the course, as well as reading for the final exam.

Um individual assignment bem fácil, uma apresentação de grupo e um final report. O exame é achievable se se estudar, no geral é completamente fazível!

Há quizzes todas as semanas para fazer em casa para 20% (fácil, com consulta). Há dois case studies bem difíceis, escolham bem os grupos (30%). Depois, no final do semestre, há um dia em que 6 grupos aleatórios apresentam os case studies, portanto cada grupo tem de preparar duas apresentações que pode nem chegar a apresentar. O professor vê-se que sabe as coisas, mas "as notas não interessam", por isso os critérios de avaliação e o que é esperado no exame é muito abstrato. Muita matéria para uma cadeira de meio semestre...

Very easy exam and group work, professor basically selects some topics that may be in exam. Classes are very boring, but you don't have to show up.

A lot to study and not enough practice through class... Take a lot of preparation time for the exam! The teacher is also not really good in explaining so i would rather use other resources to study (https://www.youtube.com/@numiqo).

Really interesting course. Very good prof. No exam. Only one group work and a personal essay. Would recommend if you want less work but you get grades for participation.

It has one individual assignment + test, a group project and also a final exam But can learn a lot about US market and it’s fun during the class cause professor is funny

The course was fine, class content overall was good. It was mostly the way it was organized that was frustrating. Workload is light, and group assignment is super chill. You don't get your group assingment grades before the final exam tho. For the final we were told that the last topic is not included as we did not finish covering it, had 3 questions on it. Were told group presentation case studies were to be covered and then were emailed less than a day before to ignore them. Were told for the open ended questions to write half a page but actually had a word limit of 175 words which turned out not enough to answer their question, as they expected details. Were told that readings are too long so don't worry about them, in the end they came in the exam. Just overall very misleading info.

The professor is really nice but there's a lot of work to do, as you are creating new Instagram account and have to post in there weekly a few times with your group, and then also on weekly basis you need to analyze in and send reports to the professor, which makes a lot of work and doesn't teach much. Some part of the grade is dependent on the performance of the page.\ \ I would say my experience with the professor and the class was nice, but I didn't learn much from it.

Workload is quite high and the grade is not predictable. The final exam consists of 2 open questions. Participation is required and the groupwork is quite demanding (random groups).

Uma cadeira boa na interseção entre economia e psicologia. Tem bastantes exemplos e estudos reais interessantes, mas por ser um curso trimestral não são por vezes tão discutidos e aprofundados quanto podiam. Ainda assim, a Professora é muito interessada na matéria e disponível para perguntas que saiam do scope. Embora a matéria seja dada rapidamente, não é muita e o exame é bastante acessível, muito parecido aos exercícios de treino colocados na plataforma da cadeira

Interesting course, the materials were pretty easy to understand and the teacher was clearly very knowledgeable. He brought guests from the Portuguese Competition Authority and gave real examples, which made the classes more engaging, although the tree hour lectures easily got boring. The assessment was: 6 quizzes, meaning one quiz per lecture, with 25% given just for showing (so I recommend attending all of them) + 1 for extra points One group project about a Competition Authority decision on a case, and groups had to either defend or counter it. You had to do a quiz, a report on why you support your decision, and an oral presentation where opposing groups debate. Groups were assigned randomly Mandatory exam The coursework was very light, the quizzes were simple as long as you paid some attention, the group project did not take much effort, and the exam was also very accessible and didn't require much studying. The professor is kinda strict with grading, however.

The workload is heavy. You need to prepare every class and the professor assumes that you have already gone through all the slides but the topics are interesting and he takes guess speakers.

Group project is horrible: 10 students in one group and the project isn’t really explained in class, it’s very excel heavy. The teacher is quite good but the content is very basic. Past exams were quite easy but exam T1 2026 was tough

The course was fine, the slides and the noodle page were really confusing, with different names and everything everywhere.

2 Group Presentations, an online test each week, and one final. Choose your group well otherwise you're cooked, 2 of our 5-people group didn't even show up to our presentation and ghosted me after. Prof doesn't answer questions about the exam and says "it's not about the grades". The underlying content is interesting though and the prof knows his stuff, but not the easiest class.

Nice and interesting with a lot of insights in the Chinese market and their biggest companies/issues. The professor is of course much in favour of China, but that is expected given his vita. Workload wasn't very heavy, mainly reading the cases and preparing straightforward presentations and the final Ted Talk. The most important thing is participation and that he knows your name. The grading of the exam and of the overall course is very random and very good grades are hard to get

The workload is not much, since its only a group presentation, the midterm and the final exam and attendence is not needed. I didn't like this course though, the name should be more like banking regulations. The lectures were incredibly boring and not many people got a good grade at the exams.

This course is very helpful if you are interested in this field. The professor is very aproachable and likes to help as well. The presentation is the heaviest part but it is very managable. The quizzes are easy.

The course I struggled with the most because I didn’t put much effort in the start and got really hard to get back on it. If you understand it and study well you can get 18-20, just practice a lot and don’t get behind otherwise it will be very tuff

This course and its teaching method are definitely something other than what I was used to at Nova, but if you are open to giving it a try, it offers you a lot of learning! Roberto really is a great prof, and this course was refreshing to take. The in-class group assignment and exam were doable with low workload.

Overall, I really enjoyed taking this course. Especially the experiences shared by the guest speakers, as well as Nuno himself, brought a lot of value to me. The lectures are quite dry to be honest (basically going through many slides with little interaction), but they cover every segment of a small enterprise which shows you the complete picture. The group assignment and exam are very doable. So if you are a small business owner or want to become one, I can fully recommend this course!

Quanto às aulas teóricas, as do Prof. Pedro Abreu são impossiveis de seguir, complicadas e maçadoras. Em termos de recursos, temos as aulas práticas, muito utéis e para realmente aprender a matéria, é preciso pesquisar por conta própria. Em termos de recursos no fenix são inexistentes, sugiro ver o leicmybox. A avaliação foi via TPs + 2MAPs45, em que a os exercícios que temos nos TPs que seriam de ajuda para os MAPs45, não tinham nada a haver com os que realmente sairam. Shout out aos professores Telmo e Miguel Ferreira, das aulas práticas, fazer o máximo para ir aos turnos dele.

Cadeira muito prática e essencial para entender o papel de cada macro e micro nutriente. Muitos trabalhos práticos, todos realizados em aula.

Método de avaliação não foi claro e exaustivo. Tivemos 2 créditos, 1 trabalho (originalmente 2) e 1 exame. Os professores estavam sempre a faltar. Exame fácil

Cadeira muito interessante, mas muito densa. Professores muito diferentes na forma de comunicar e, por vezes, difíceis de acompanhar

Cadeirão do primeiro ano. Ajuda a consolidar muito bem as vias metabólicas. Essencial estudar a matéria ao longo do semestre. Exame fácil

Cadeira muito importante para desenvolvimento de soft skills. Essencial para densenvolver confiança e aprender a comunicar em público. Professor é uma máquina e muito disponível

Professora explica de forma simples e clara e é muito disponível para ajudar. Fazer os exercícios do SPSS ao longo do semestre é uma boa estratégia para estudar. Exame muito parecido aos exercícios

As práticas envolvem muito trabalho com experiências e relatórios, mas conseguimos trabalhar bem no tempo da aula. Aprendemos muito na prática

Fazemos visitas de estudo que ajudam a perceber na realidade qual a ligação a montante da produção dos alimentos.

Estudar as aulas teóricas ao longo do semestre é essencial. As aulas práticas são muito dinâmicas e temos trabalhos mesmo interessantes

Exercícios muito importantes e direcionados à nutrição clínica

Cadeira interessante em termos de cultura, mas com aulas muito monótonas. Teste fácil. Respondam às perguntas da ficha de trabalho

É uma cadeira muito densa em termos de informação. Aulas práticas ajudam imenso a consolidar a matéria