CrisisMMD — Hurricane_Harvey
A Twitter dataset of 3,992 tweets referencing 4,569 images by URL, collected by Alam et al. for the Hurricane Harvey 2017 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, engagement metrics (retweets, favorites, replies, quotes), user metadata, media attachments, crisis code. The dataset is notable for its multimodal dataset from the Hurricane Harvey 2017 crisis, collected from Twitter during the event with full Twitter API metadata. Intended for research into crisis informatics, multimodal learning, disaster response, image classification, tweet filtering, engagement analysis. This copy (the SocialED redistribution) holds the tweet objects only: the images are referenced by URL and the image files are not included, and neither are CrisisMMD's human annotations (informativeness, humanitarian category, damage severity).
Cite this dataset at
crisismmd-hurricane-harvey.echo.directory
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
crisismmd-Hurricane_Harvey- Authors
- Alam, Firoj; Ofli, Ferda; Imran, Muhammad
- Year
- 2018
- Source paper
- CrisisMMD: Multimodal Twitter Datasets from Natural Disasters
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.14983
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
- Records
- 3,992
- Text corpus
- tweet text
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2017 (2010s)
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://github.com/ChenBeici/SocialED_datasets/tree/main/raw_data/CrisisMMD link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 19.8 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
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{alam2018crisismmd,
author = {Alam, Firoj and Ofli, Ferda and Imran, Muhammad},
title = {CrisisMMD: Multimodal Twitter Datasets from Natural Disasters},
year = {2018},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
series = {ICWSM '18},
publisher = {AAAI Press}
} 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. (2018). CrisisMMD — Hurricane_Harvey [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.14983
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Alam, Firoj, et al. CrisisMMD — Hurricane_Harvey. 2018, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.14983.