2011 UK Riots Tweets

Collection of tweets captured at the time of the 2011 UK Riots. This collection is only partial, retrieved via the streaming API. The data provides a historical record of public discussion on Twitter during a significant social happening. It also represents a useful resources for experimentation and methodological development. The data is both a social and an informational resource, enabling the analysis of a significant social event and the development/application of computational tools for, among other aims, natural language processing, information retrieval, meta data analysis. In addition to the principle collection of tweets (UK Riots Database), a sub-collection has been extracted that includes only the geo-tagged tweets. Finally, these databases are stored on MongoDB and are made queryable using a special interface (see the UK Riots Database for access and instructions) that allows queries to be stored in another dataset, shared, and re-executed.<br>

本数据集为2011年英国骚乱期间采集的推文集合，仅为通过流式API（Streaming API）获取的部分数据。该数据集记录了这一重大社会事件发生期间，推特（Twitter）平台上的公众讨论历史，同时也是实验研究与方法学开发的宝贵资源。其兼具社会价值与信息价值，既可支持对重大社会事件的分析，也可用于面向自然语言处理、信息检索、元数据分析（Metadata）等场景的计算工具开发与应用。除核心推文集合英国骚乱数据库（UK Riots Database）外，本数据集还提取了仅包含地理标记推文的子集合。最后，上述数据库均存储于MongoDB中，并通过专用接口实现查询功能（访问方式与操作说明详见英国骚乱数据库），该接口支持将查询语句存储至另一数据集、实现查询共享与重复执行。