UrbangEnCy: An emergency events dataset based on citizen sensors for monitoring urban scenarios in Ecuador.

ABSTRACT: Recently, the use of the citizen-sensors (people generating and sharing real data by social media) for detecting and disseminating emergency events in real-time have shown a considerable increase because people at the place of the event, as well as elsewhere, can quickly post relevant information on this type of alerts. Here, we present an emergency events dataset called UrbangEnCy. The dataset contains over 25500 texts in Spanish posted on Twitter from January 19th to August 19th, 2020, with emergencies and non-emergencies related content in Ecuador. We obtained, cleaned and, filtered these tweets and, then we selected the location and temporal data as well as tweet content. Besides, the data set includes annotations regarding the type of tweet (emergency / non-emergency) as well a

SUBMITTER: Parraga-Alava J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7804594 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature