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Title:
Hurricane Harvey Twitter Dataset
Repository:
University of North Texas
Repository URL:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc993940/
Creator(s):
  • Mark Phillips
Subjects:
  • Natural Disasters
  • Texas
Dates:
  • 08/18/2017 - 09/22/2017
Number of Tweets:
7,041,866
Description:

This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Hurricane Harvey and the subsequent flooding along the Texas gulf region. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 7,041,866 Tweets make up the combined dataset. See included README.txt for additional information.