Coursera Course Catalog with Ratings and Enrollment, 890 Courses

890 Coursera course records scraped from the official website by an individual learner for a hackathon project. The dataset includes course titles, organizations, certificate types, ratings, difficulty levels, and student enrollment counts. The author shared the scraping code and an article about the dataset generation process.

Use Cases

• Building a course recommendation system based on course difficulty and ratings mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing the relationship between student enrollment numbers and course ratings mentioned in the description.
• Comparing course offerings and certification types across different organizations mentioned in the description.
• Studying the distribution of course difficulty levels within the Coursera catalog mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Contains 890 distinct course records.
• Includes six specific features per course: title, organization, certificate type, rating, difficulty, and enrollment.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Scraped from the Coursera official website.

Collection Method

Web scraping, with code and an article about the process provided by the author.