CrisisMMD — Hurricane_Irma

A Twitter dataset of 4,021 tweets referencing 3,611 images by URL, collected by Alam et al. for the Hurricane Irma 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 Irma 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).

#Crisis informatics#Humanitarian category

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Analytics

Content metrics

4,021 records scored

hashtag countavg 0.83 / 9
0std 1.279
832
Text-only records
3.2K
With media
79.3%
Visual density
9.5
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.2
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
irmahurricanefloridaharveyampmariahelpstormpostpowerdamagenewreliefnewsmoneybusinessmiamicaribbeanvictimshomehurricaneshitweektodayupdatepathlikeaffectedrecoverycountyhurricaneirmaislandsjoseneedtrumphelpingislandpeopleworkeffortsdayleftgotkeyswakepuertoresidentsthankswaterdays
Topic clusters

Topic 0

harvey
hurricanes
amp
help
victim
disaster
irma
donate

Topic 1

maria
puerto
rico
track
path
hit
category
island

Topic 2

relief
victim
hurricane
help
effort
donate
assist
fund

Topic 3

day
post
morning
thank
irma
work
nice
week

Topic 4

hurricane
irma
know
storm
ship
prepare
weather
hurricaneirma

Topic 5

county
debris
collier
lee
nursing
pickup
florida
sheriff

Topic 6

power
restore
outage
crew
waste
florida
work
restoration

Topic 7

money
business
bloomberg
foxbusiness
fox
market
election
irma

Topic 8

roof
power
tree
generator
window
clean
finally
irma

Topic 9

irma
thomas
edge
pack
matthew
datum
survive
space

Topic 10

keys
key
west
florida
keywest
floridakeys
resident
reopen

Topic 11

hurricane
update
watch
monday
irma
storm
likely
release
Show all 25 topics

Topic 12

satellite
image
hurricane
nasa
watch
video
look
view

Topic 13

animal
dog
pet
shelter
rescue
displace
pets
care

Topic 14

school
student
football
state
university
class
evacuation
hurricane

Topic 15

caribbean
island
hit
devastation
devastate
hotel
martin
hurricane

Topic 16

trump
lago
mar
president
climate
change
rush
harvey

Topic 17

amp
donation
donate
victim
help
community
grateful
thank

Topic 18

nfl
twitter
week
football
gameday
browns
thiago
tom

Topic 19

insurance
claim
savannah
billion
loss
estimate
total
village

Topic 20

couple
florida
tampa
floridians
cleanup
local
south
finally

Topic 21

florida
death
blame
south
storm
governor
hurricane
hit

Topic 22

cuba
aid
recover
humanitarian
faa
caribbean
rip
irma

Topic 23

miami
beach
estate
news
real
aftermath
prep
search

Topic 24

prayer
god
pray
israel
faith
muslim
david
society
Top hashtags
#irma1K
#harvey109
#money89
#maria88
#hurricane75
#florida67
#hurricaneirma67
#jose23
#news23
#hurricanemaria16
#climatechange14
#cuba13
#flapol13
#miami13
#puertorico12
#redcross12
#irmarecovery11
#flwx9
#keywest9
#shipping9

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisismmd-Hurricane_Irma
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
4,021
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, 20.7 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_Irma [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_Irma. 2018, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.14983.

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