Ebola (Cleaned)

Dataset of tweets about West African Ebola virus epidemic which is the most widespread epidemic of Ebola virus disease. The epidemic began in Guinea in December 2013 and lasted for two years. World government agencies report more than 11, 295 deaths. The dataset were collected from July 29th 2014 to August 28th 2014 using “ebola” as a keyword.<br>This is a cleaned version of the former dataset (<em>ebola_full</em>) in which we filtered through a classification algorithm non-topically related tweets as explained in our paper.<br>In accordance with Twitter's Terms of Service, we only provide identifiers of tweets. In order to "hydrate" those tweet identifiers, or in other words, to collect the actual tweets, you could use our <strong>Tweeset </strong>tool.https://bitbucket.org/amjedbj/tweeset.<br>If you would like to use this dataset, please cite our paper:<em>Lynda Tamine, Laure Soulier, Lamjed Ben Jabeur, Frederic Amblard, Chihab Hanachi, Gilles Hubert, and Camille Roth. 2016. Social Media-Based Collaborative Information Access: Analysis of Online Crisis-Related Twitter Conversations. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 159-168. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2914586.2914589</em>