HumAID — hurricane_florence_2018

A Twitter dataset of 6,264 tweets from hurricane_florence_2018, collected by Alam et al. for hurricane_florence_2018 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, train/dev/test split. Human-annotated crisis tweets from the hurricane_florence_2018 event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.

#Crisis informatics#Humaid#Humanitarian category#Hurricane florence

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10.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
12.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
florencehurricanehurricaneflorencehelpfloodingampstormcarolinawaternorthpeopleemergencyreliefdamagefoodaffectedcarolinascoastneedrescueevacuationfloodareassafetodaysouthraindonateeffortsnewstaypaththoughtspowercountyareastatevictimswindsedtprayersresidentseastvirginiareportsteamdisastersupportlocalmorning
Topic clusters

Topic 0

florence
flooding
hurricane
storm
wind
rain
carolina
north

Topic 1

hurricaneflorence
evacuation
hurricane
order
mandatory
emergency
storm
florence

Topic 2

food
hurricaneflorence
donate
help
donation
day
relief
thank

Topic 3

florence
help
hurricane
relief
donate
team
effort
donation

Topic 4

prayer
pray
thought
affect
hurricane
florence
safe
path

Topic 5

pet
animal
rescue
dog
shelter
hurricaneflorence
florence
leave

Topic 6

edt
report
flash
flood
road
tornado
closed
dept

Topic 7

trump
puerto
rico
hurricane
fema
people
death
die
Top hashtags
#hurricaneflorence1.8K
#florence1.1K
#hurricane181
#northcarolina124
#ncwx90
#job72
#hiring63
#flooding61
#food61
#careerarc59
#florencenc59
#nc52
#scwx46
#southcarolina42
#evacuation36
#hurricaneflorence201830
#hurricanceflorence29
#redcross29
#traffic26
#wilmington26

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
humaid-hurricane_florence_2018
Authors
Alam, Firoj; Ofli, Ferda; Imran, Muhammad
Year
2020
Source paper
HumAID: A Human-Annotated Dataset for Disaster Response
DOI / arXiv
10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
6,264
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2018 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://github.com/ChenBeici/SocialED_datasets/tree/main/raw_data/HumAID link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 1.3 MB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

Citations

HumAID: Human-Annotated Disaster Incidents Data from Twitter with Deep Learning Benchmarks
Firoj Alam, U. Qazi, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli
Journal Article · International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021

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BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{alam2020humaid,
  author    = {Alam, Firoj and Ofli, Ferda and Imran, Muhammad},
  title     = {HumAID: A Human-Annotated Dataset for Disaster Response},
  year      = {2020},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management},
  series    = {ISCRAM '20}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Alam, F., Ofli, F., & Imran, M. (2020). HumAID — hurricane_florence_2018 [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Alam, Firoj, et al. HumAID — hurricane_florence_2018. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116.

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