Organization

UpThink offers online courses in statistics and data science for college credit and professional development. The catalogue, first offered by Statistics.com in 2002, includes introductory and intermediate statistics, predictive analytics and machine learning, forecasting, optimisation, natural language processing, data visualisation, and statistical programming in R, Python, and SQL. UpThink assumed delivery of the catalogue in 2026, having provided the teaching assistant and academic support behind these courses for more than twenty years.

Courses are taught by instructors selected for their expertise in their respective fields, many of whom are authors of well-regarded texts. Several courses also form part of degree programmes at partner institutions.

Courses run over flexible calendar periods and do not require students to be online at specific times. Students discuss questions with instructors through private class discussion forums, teaching assistants provide feedback on homework assignments, many of which involve statistical software, and support staff handle student services and inquiries.