Replication data for: Concurrent Bursty Behavior of Social Sensors in Sporting Events

Using the Twitter Search API, which allows 180 queries per 15-min window, we compiled a dataset of tweets related to Japan's 2013 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) games, including at least one hashtag of NPB teams such as #giants (Yomiuri Giants) and #rakuteneagles (Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles). This hashtag-based crawling with multiple crawlers allowed us to obtain the nearly-complete data regarding these sporting events: 528,501 tweets surrounding 19 baseball games from the Climax Series (the annual playoff series) and from the Japan Series (the annual championship series) in the 2013 NPB. We also collected tweets related to Major League Baseball (MLB) games in 2015, including at least one hashtag of the MLB teams such as #Yankees and #BlueJays. We sampled 730,142 tweets from 17 games of New York Yankees from September 11 to 27, 2015.本研究借助每15分钟窗口可发起180次查询的Twitter搜索API（Twitter Search API），构建了2013年日本职业棒球（Nippon Professional Baseball, NPB）赛事相关的推文数据集，筛选规则为推文包含至少一条NPB球队相关话题标签，例如#giants（读卖巨人队）与#rakuteneagles（东北乐天金鹰队）。这种基于话题标签的多爬虫抓取方案，使我们得以获取该类体育赛事近乎完整的相关数据：涵盖2013年NPB年度季后赛系列赛（Climax Series）与年度总冠军系列赛（Japan Series）共19场棒球赛事的528,501条相关推文。此外，本研究还收集了2015年美国职业棒球大联盟（Major League Baseball, MLB）赛事相关推文，筛选规则为推文包含至少一条MLB球队相关话题标签，例如#Yankees与#BlueJays。我们从2015年9月11日至27日纽约洋基队（New York Yankees）的17场赛事中，采样得到730,142条推文。