HumAID — hurricane_dorian_2019

A Twitter dataset of 7,613 tweets from hurricane_dorian_2019, collected by Alam et al. for hurricane_dorian_2019 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, train/dev/test split. Human-annotated crisis tweets from the hurricane_dorian_2019 event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.

#Crisis informatics#Humaid#Humanitarian category#Hurricane dorian

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11.0
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.8
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
dorianhurricanehurricanedorianfloridabahamasstormdamageamphelpwateremergencypeoplewindsprayersevacuationpathreliefcoastsafethoughtscategorycountyneedstatefloodingstayresidentsfoodmphareasabacoaffectedmandatorytrumpevacuationshithurricanedorian2019landfallpreparetimecatastrophicdestroyedbeachhomeseastpraysouthsurgegoingcat
Topic clusters

Topic 0

trump
lago
mar
damage
dorian
destroy
hurricane
fema

Topic 1

prayer
pray
thought
bahamas
path
safe
dorian
people

Topic 2

dorian
hurricane
help
relief
red
volunteer
cross
team

Topic 3

water
food
hurricanedorian
dorian
gas
hurricane
supply
prepare

Topic 4

mph
wind
bahamas
dorian
damage
hurricane
catastrophic
storm

Topic 5

abaco
islands
damage
catastrophic
bahamas
island
mph
video

Topic 6

pet
shelter
animal
hurricanedorian
evacuation
dog
friendly
evacuate

Topic 7

hurricanedorian
help
donate
volunteer
need
team
relief
donation

Topic 8

evacuation
mandatory
order
county
brevard
dorian
barrier
beach

Topic 9

coast
track
flooding
dorian
storm
rain
wind
florida

Topic 10

carolina
state
evacuation
south
declare
emergency
governor
mandatory
Top hashtags
#hurricanedorian1.9K
#dorian1.7K
#bahamas304
#hurricanedorian2019271
#florida229
#hurricane225
#dorian2019198
#flwx87
#abaco60
#dorianhurricane57
#dorianflorida50
#prayforthebahamas47
#breaking45
#evacuation41
#hurricanequestions41
#georgia38
#redcross35
#staysafe35
#flprepares32
#scwx32

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
humaid-hurricane_dorian_2019
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
7,613
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2019 (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, 1.6 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

126
citations
well cited
16
influential citations
13% of all citations

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How to cite

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_dorian_2019 [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_dorian_2019. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116.

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