DOI: 10.5061/dryad.34mn3
title: Data from: Dynamics and biases of online attention: the case of aircraft crashes

description: The Internet not only has changed the dynamics of our collective attention
 but also through the transactional log of online activities, provides us
 with the opportunity to study attention dynamics at scale. In this paper,
 we particularly study attention to aircraft incidents and accidents using
 Wikipedia transactional data in two different language editions, English
 and Spanish. We study both the editorial activities on and the viewership
 of the articles about airline crashes. We analyse how the level of
 attention is influenced by different parameters such as number of deaths,
 airline region, and event locale and date. We find evidence that the
 attention given by Wikipedia editors to pre-Wikipedia aircraft incidents
 and accidents depends on the region of the airline for both English and
 Spanish editions. North American airline companies receive more prompt
 coverage in English Wikipedia. We also observe that the attention given by
 Wikipedia visitors is influenced by the airline region but only for events
 with a high number of deaths. Finally we show that the rate and time span
 of the decay of attention is independent of the number of deaths and a
 fast decay within about a week seems to be universal. We discuss the
 implications of these findings in the context of attention bias.
description: Dynamics and Biases of
 Online Attention: The Case of Aircraft CrashesThis is a text file
 named "Readme.txt" in the dataset folder submitted for the Royal
 Society Open Science on May,2016. It describes the dataset used for
 article "Dynamics of Online Attention: The case of Airline
 Crashes" by Ruth García-Gavilanes, Milena Tsvetkova and Taha Yasseri
 Version of Paper 2.0 Release ============================================
 Dataset description =================== The dataset is about a set of
 articles classified as aircraft incidents or accidents in English and
 Spanish Wikipedia, belonging to the categories “Aviation accidents and
 incidents by country” and “Aviation accidents and incidents by year” which
 theoretically covers all airline accidents and incidents in different
 countries and throughout history available in Wikipedia by December 2015.
 In total we obtained 1496 articles in English Wikipedia and 488 articles
 in Spanish Wikipedia. File description =================== flights_en.txt
 and flights_es.txt have the following columns:
 ================================================================ These
 files contain information about the articles and the events associated
 with them. The files have the following columns flight: Name of the
 article in Wikipedia (be aware that Wikipedia can redirect these articles
 to other names) langs: The number of languages containing a version of the
 article flight.en/ flight.es: The translated name in English (for
 flight_es.txt) or Spanish (for flights_en.txt) date: The date the “event”
 occurred start.date: The date the Wikipedia page was first edited
 max.date: The date of maximum views in the timeline of the article deaths:
 Number of deaths derived from the accident or incident longitude/latitude:
 The longitude and latitude of the accident or incident (when not available
 we made an approximation) company_long/company_lat: The coordinates of the
 country where the airline headquarters is located
 aircraft_company_continent: The continent where the airline headquarters
 is located aircraft_company_country: The country where the airline
 headquarters is located region_event: The continent where the
 event/incident occurred country_event: The country where the
 event/incident occurred Folder pageviews
 ================================================================ The
 folder has two subfolders: enwiki and eswiki. Each subfolder contains
 subfolders with the title of each article of the dataset in English (1496)
 and Spanish (488). In each folder, there are files with names in format
 title_2008_2015.txt, the field *title* is the name of redirects or the
 current name of each article. For example, the directory
 pageviews/enwiki/1912_Brooklands_Flanders_Monoplane_crash contains two
 files: Monoplane_Committee_2008_2015.txt and
 1912_Brooklands_Flanders_Monoplane_crash_2008_2015.txt. The file
 Monoplane_Committee_2008_2015 contains viewership information about the
 views to Wikipedia article Monoplane_Committee from 2008 to 2015. Each
 file has the following columns: rd.views: Number of views date: Date
 (yyyy-mm-dd) Contact and scripts
 ================================================================ Source
 code in R to extract page views of articles and redirects :
 https://github.com/Ruthygg/WikiRedirects The pageviews are extracted from
 http://stats.grok.se. Data availability starts from Dec-2007. From 2015
 there is an API in R devoted to extract pageviews
 https://github.com/ironholds/pageviews. @ruthygarciag
 www.ruthygarcia.comdataset_journal.zip