Context
Coursera was last valued in the private market at $3.6 billion, according to PitchBook.
Founded in 2012 by former Stanford University computer science professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, the Mountain View, California-based company offers individuals access to online courses and degrees from top universities, a business that has boomed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
Revenue last year jumped 59% to $293 million. Still, Coursera’s net losses widened to $66.8 million from $46.7 million in 2019 as the company said it added over 12,000 new degrees for students over the last two years. Total registered users grew 65% year over year in 2020.
Source : https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/coursera-ipo-cour-begins-trading-on-the-nyse.html
Content
The dataset contains tweets regarding Coursera IPO from verified twitter accounts
Acknowledgements
Coursera IPO Tweets are scraped using Twint.
Twint is an advanced Twitter scraping tool written in Python that allows for scraping Tweets from Twitter profiles without using Twitter's API.
https://pypi.org/project/twint/