HumAID — hurricane_harvey_2017

A Twitter dataset of 9,112 tweets from hurricane_harvey_2017, collected by Alam et al. for hurricane_harvey_2017 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, train/dev/test split. Human-annotated crisis tweets from the hurricane_harvey_2017 event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.

#Crisis informatics#Humaid#Humanitarian#Texas

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9.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.5
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
harveyhurricanehurricaneharveytexashoustonhelpfloodingampdamagereliefvictimswaterpeopleaffectedneeddonatefloodhomesshelterstormfloodsdeathfoodtollefforts000evacueestrumptornadodonationsrescueharvey2017newssupporthoustonstrongthoughtsprayersdisplacedmillionareaaidtodaydeadareasdisasterredcrossdamageddonatingtropical
Topic clusters

Topic 0

harvey
hurricane
relief
help
donate
donation
victim
red

Topic 1

hurricaneharvey
help
affect
donate
relief
amp
damage
texas

Topic 2

flooding
harvey
flood
houston
rain
storm
catastrophic
tropical

Topic 3

trump
president
hurricaneharvey
harvey
hurricane
damage
texas
people

Topic 4

death
toll
rise
harvey
dead
people
confirm
hurricane

Topic 5

animal
pet
dog
rescue
displace
shelter
harvey
help

Topic 6

prayer
thought
pray
affect
hurricane
harvey
amp
victim

Topic 7

damage
hurricane
harvey
destruction
home
texas
destroy
coast

Topic 8

tornado
warning
county
harris
cdt
bend
fort
txwx

Topic 9

evacuee
shelter
center
harvey
convention
open
mega
volunteer

Topic 10

evacuation
mandatory
evacuate
order
harvey
mayor
houston
resident
Top hashtags
#harvey2.8K
#hurricaneharvey2.2K
#houston438
#texas264
#harvey2017212
#houstonstrong199
#houstonflood130
#flooding112
#texasstrong99
#txwx85
#hurricane73
#prayfortexas73
#harveyflood66
#houstonfloods49
#portarthur48
#news46
#harveyrelief41
#breaking40
#floods39
#harveys37
Top emoji
🙏122
🚨55
🏼50
🇸40
🇺40
🏻36
🏽35
👇32
👏27
😭18
💙16
🐾14
💔14
😂14
🤔14

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
humaid-hurricane_harvey_2017
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
9,112
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/HumAID link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 1.4 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_harvey_2017 [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_harvey_2017. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116.

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