CrisisLex — 2013_Typhoon_Yolanda

A Twitter dataset of 1,048 tweets, collected by Olteanu et al. via Twitter API during the 2013 Typhoon Yolanda crisis. Each record contains tweet text, crisis type, country, event name. The dataset is notable for its tweets from the 2013 Typhoon Yolanda crisis, collected systematically across 26 events for comparative analysis. Intended for research into crisis informatics, disaster response, social media analysis, cross-crisis comparison, emergency communication patterns, situation awareness.

#Crisis informatics#Crisislex#Philippines#Typhoon haiyan

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Analytics

9.1
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
12.7
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
typhoonphilippineshaiyanyolandaphhelpvictimsreliefyolandaampdonatesuperneedpeopleaffectedtaclobanappealeffortsaid000shelterwaterstrongestmillionstyphoonhaiyanhttpoxfamgbcleandeadprayprayforthephilippinesharry_stylesjustinbiebersupporthitsurvivorschildrenunicefprayersnewsemergencyredcrossancalertsresponsestormmillionthankworlddonationsfilipinos
Topic clusters

Topic 0

yolandaph
volunteer
yolanda
victim
donate
reliefph
donation
help

Topic 1

super
storm
typhoon
haiyan
strong
world
philippines
landfall

Topic 2

philippines
aid
relief
typhoonaid
typhoon
help
amp
donation

Topic 3

philippine
filipino
philippines
rescueph
prayforthephilippines
filipina
love
thank

Topic 4

prayer
yolanda
pray
prayforthephilippine
ask
victim
island
yolandaph

Topic 5

dead
fear
death
toll
kill
people
typhoon
rise

Topic 6

pray
katrina
prayer
combine
philippines
typhoon
sandy
phillipines

Topic 7

water
shelter
appeal
million
amp
need
donate
philippines

Topic 8

yolanda
update
yolandaph
landfall
super
infographic
number
typhoon

Topic 9

donate
red
victim
help
cross
haiyan
donation
appeal

Topic 10

justin
victim
final
visit
young
help
typhoon
philippines

Topic 11

survivor
help
haiyan
typhoon
family
way
animal
aid
Show all 20 topics

Topic 12

size
photo
destruction
devastation
satellite
haiyan
devastating
typhoon

Topic 13

need
help
meet
let
haiyan
child
victim
wash

Topic 14

filipinas
del
con
haiyan
filipina
ayuda
los
para

Topic 15

contribute
effort
relief
donate
bear
money
haiyan
country

Topic 16

unicef
kid
child
emergency
effort
relief
songs
download

Topic 17

ang
yolandaph
tvpatrol
bagyong
mga
rin
gobyerno
ako

Topic 18

strong
filipinos
nation
yolanda
strongest
people
prayforthephilippine
lot

Topic 19

yolandaph
yolanda
hard
stay
god
area
dahil
homeless
Top hashtags
#haiyan265
#yolandaph202
#philippines171
#typhoonhaiyan38
#prayforthephilippines34
#yolanda27
#typhoon19
#reliefph14
#rescueph14
#typhoonaid13
#believetour9
#filipinas9
#typhoonyolanda9
#tacloban7
#ac3606
#dt6
#filipino6
#bangonpilipinas5
#filipina5
#love5
Top emoji
🙏24
😔3
😭3
😘2
🇸1
🇺1
🌈1
🌊1
👊1
👍1
👪1
💝1
💦1
💪1
😃1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2013_Typhoon_Yolanda
Authors
Olteanu, Alexandra; Vieweg, Sarah; Castillo, Carlos
Year
2015
Source paper
What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises
DOI / arXiv
10.1145/2675133.2675242
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
1,048
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2012-2013 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://crisislex.org/ link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.3 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{olteanu2015expect,
  author    = {Olteanu, Alexandra and Vieweg, Sarah and Castillo, Carlos},
  title     = {What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises},
  year      = {2015},
  doi       = {10.1145/2675133.2675241},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
  series    = {CSCW '15},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address   = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Olteanu, A., Vieweg, S., & Castillo, C. (2015). CrisisLex — 2013_Typhoon_Yolanda [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Olteanu, Alexandra, et al. CrisisLex — 2013_Typhoon_Yolanda. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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