HumAID — hurricane_matthew_2016

A Twitter dataset of 1,654 tweets from hurricane_matthew_2016, collected by Alam et al. for hurricane_matthew_2016 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, train/dev/test split. Human-annotated crisis tweets from the hurricane_matthew_2016 event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.

#Crisis informatics#Humaid#Humanitarian category#Hurricane matthew

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Analytics

9.6
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.2
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
haitihurricanematthewpeoplehelpreliefamphurricanematthewprayersdamageaffectedcubaprayearthquakethoughtshitbahamasdonateprayingdeadstormvictimsaidtolldeathfloridaclintonkillednewsjamaicamoneydonationshitscaribbeanhomesneeddestructionemergencypathfoundationtodaydeathshillaryclintonscoastheartdestroyedkillsportflooding
Topic clusters

Topic 0

matthew
hurricane
relief
haiti
help
donate
aid
humanitarian

Topic 1

pray
prayer
matthew
people
hurricane
thought
affect
haiti

Topic 2

damage
matthew
hurricane
haiti
start
photo
flooding
flood

Topic 3

prayer
pray
people
haiti
affect
friend
heart
hurricane

Topic 4

clinton
foundation
clintons
steal
money
haiti
hurricane
earthquake

Topic 5

help
relief
donate
haiti
hurricane
money
donation
supply

Topic 6

death
toll
matthew
kill
dead
hurricane
haiti
rise

Topic 7

bahamas
cuba
matthew
emergency
batter
hurricane
haiti
state

Topic 8

hurricanematthew
donate
support
help
relief
haiti
respond
victim

Topic 9

damage
toll
kill
hurricanematthew
haiti
death
dead
powerful
Top hashtags
#haiti213
#hurricanematthew155
#matthew107
#hurricane43
#cuba18
#news18
#prayforhaiti16
#clintonfoundation13
#crookedhillary13
#haitimatthew12
#bahamas9
#jamaica8
#vpdebate7
#breakingnews6
#cholera6
#matthewhaiti6
#florida5
#hillary5
#usa5
#breaking4

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
humaid-hurricane_matthew_2016
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
1,654
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2016 (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, 250.1 KB 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
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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_matthew_2016 [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_matthew_2016. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116.

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