HumAID — ecuador_earthquake_2016
A Twitter dataset of 1,563 tweets from ecuador_earthquake_2016, collected by Alam et al. for ecuador_earthquake_2016 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, train/dev/test split. Human-annotated crisis tweets from the ecuador_earthquake_2016 event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.
Cite this dataset at
humaid-ecuador-earthquake-2016.echo.directory
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Record
- Catalog key
humaid-ecuador_earthquake_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
- 1,563
- 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, 233.1 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
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
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 — ecuador_earthquake_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 — ecuador_earthquake_2016. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116.