metadata

task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - en
tags:
  - natural disasters
  - tweets
  - classification
  - catastrophic events
pretty_name: Natural Disasters from Social Media
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
annotations_creators:
  - crowdsourced
  - expert-generated
source_datasets:
  - Kaggle 1 - jannesklaas/disasters-on-social-media
  - Kaggle 2 - vstepanenko/disaster-tweets
  - Kaggle 3 - sidharth178/disaster-response-messages
  - 'Zahra et al. - doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102107'
  - 'CrisisMMD - arxiv: 1805.00713'
  - 'Alam et al. - arxiv: 1805.05151'
  - 'CrisisLexT26 - doi: 10.1145/2675133.2675242'
  - 'Imran et al. - aclanthology: L16-1259'
  - 'CrisisLexT6 - doi: 10.1609/icwsm.v8i1.14538'
  - 'HumAID - doi: 10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116'
  - 'CrisisBench - doi: 10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18115'
configs:
  - config_name: default
    default: true
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: train.csv
      - split: validation
        path: validation.csv
      - split: test
        path: test.csv
  - config_name: full
    data_files: meta/natural-disasters-from-social-media.csv
  - config_name: meta
    data_files: meta/distributions/*.csv
dataset_info:
  config_name: default
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 39817704
      num_examples: 169109
    - name: validation
      num_bytes: 4977163
      num_examples: 21139
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 4981112
      num_examples: 21139
  dataset_size: 49775824

Description

Dataset created for Master's thesis "Detection of Catastrophic Events from Social Media" at the Slovak Technical University Faculty of Informatics.

Contains posts from social media that are split into two categories:

Informative - related and informative in regards to natural disasters
Non-Informative - unrelated to natural disasters

Other metadata include event type, source dataset etc. To balance classes, 50k tweets from twitter archive for years 2017-2022 were added.

Distributions

Source Datasets:

Name	Count
Kaggle 1 - URL	951
Kaggle 2 - URL	579
Kaggle 3 - URL	3782
Zahra et al. - URL	6494
CrisisMMD - URL	11043
Alam et al. - URL	11133
CrisisLexT26 - URL	14998
Imran et al. - URL	16549
CrisisLexT6 - URL	22672
HumAID - URL	42837
CrisisBench - URL	31158
ArchiveTeam - URL	49191
Total	211387

Total Event counts:

Type	Non-Informative	Informative	Total
Unknown	61880	14740	76620
Storm	20944	47301	68245
Flood	13104	14637	27741
Earthquake	7844	15549	23393
Fire	2343	8595	10938
Landslide	2392	384	2776
Meteorite	193	545	738
Haze	51	503	554
Volcano	243	139	382