Twitter Big Data as A Resource For Exoskeleton Research: A Large-Scale Dataset of about 140,000 Tweets and 100 Research Questions

Please cite the following paper when using this dataset: N. Thakur, “Twitter Big Data as a Resource for Exoskeleton Research: A Large-Scale Dataset of about 140,000 Tweets and 100 Research Questions,” Preprints, 2022, DOI: 10.20944/preprints202206.0383.v1 Abstract The exoskeleton technology has been rapidly advancing in the recent past due to its multitude of applications and use cases in assisted living, military, healthcare, firefighting, and industries. With the projected increase in the diverse uses of exoskeletons in the next few years in these application domains and beyond, it is crucial to study, interpret, and analyze user perspectives, public opinion, reviews, and feedback related to exoskeletons, for which a dataset is necessary. The Internet of Everything era of today's living, characterized by people spending more time on the Internet than ever before, holds the potential for developing such a dataset by mining relevant web behavior data from social media communications, which have increased exponentially in the last few years. Twitter, one such social media platform, is highly popular amongst all age groups, who communicate on diverse topics including but not limited to news, current events, politics, emerging technologies, family, relationships, and career opportunities, via tweets, while sharing their views, opinions, perspectives, and feedback towards the same. Therefore, this work presents a dataset of about 140,000 Tweets related to exoskeletons. that were mined for a period of 5-years from May 21, 2017, to May 21, 2022. The tweets contain diverse forms of communications and conversations which communicate user interests, user perspectives, public opinion, reviews, feedback, suggestions, etc., related to exoskeletons. Instructions: This dataset contains about 140,000 Tweets related to exoskeletons. that were mined for a period of 5-years from May 21, 2017, to May 21, 2022. The tweets contain diverse forms of communications and conversations which communicate user interests, user perspectives, public opinion, reviews, feedback, suggestions, etc., related to exoskeletons. The dataset contains only tweet identifiers (Tweet IDs) due to the terms and conditions of Twitter to re-distribute Twitter data only for research purposes. They need to be hydrated to be used. The process of retrieving a tweet's complete information (such as the text of the tweet, username, user ID, date and time, etc.) using its ID is known as the hydration of a tweet ID. The Hydrator application (link to download the application: https://github.com/DocNow/hydrator/releases and link to a step-by-step tutorial: https://towardsdatascience.com/learn-how-to-easily-hydrate-tweets-a0f393ed340e#:~:text=Hydrating%20Tweets) or any similar application may be used for hydrating this dataset. Data Description This dataset consists of 7 .txt files. The following shows the number of Tweet IDs and the date range (of the associated tweets) in each of these files. Filename: Exoskeleton_TweetIDs_Set1.txt (Number of Tweet IDs – 22945, Date Range of Tweets - July 20, 2021 – May 21, 2022) Filename: Exoskeleton_TweetIDs_Set2.txt (Number of Tweet IDs – 19416, Date Range of Tweets - Dec 1, 2020 – July 19, 2021) Filename: Exoskeleton_TweetIDs_Set3.txt (Number of Tweet IDs – 16673, Date Range of Tweets - April 29, 2020 - Nov 30, 2020) Filename: Exoskeleton_TweetIDs_Set4.txt (Number of Tweet IDs – 16208, Date Range of Tweets - Oct 5, 2019 - Apr 28, 2020) Filename: Exoskeleton_TweetIDs_Set5.txt (Number of Tweet IDs – 17983, Date Range of Tweets - Feb 13, 2019 - Oct 4, 2019) Filename: Exoskeleton_TweetIDs_Set6.txt (Number of Tweet IDs – 34009, Date Range of Tweets - Nov 9, 2017 - Feb 12, 2019) Filename: Exoskeleton_TweetIDs_Set7.txt (Number of Tweet IDs – 11351, Date Range of Tweets - May 21, 2017 - Nov 8, 2017) Here, the last date for May is May 21 as it was the most recent date at the time of data collection. The dataset would be updated soon to incorporate more recent tweets.