CrisisLex — 2013_Queensland_floods

A Twitter dataset of 1,200 tweets, collected by Olteanu et al. via Twitter API during the 2013 Queensland floods crisis. Each record contains tweet text, crisis type, country, event name. The dataset is notable for its tweets from the 2013 Queensland floods 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.

#Australia#Crisis informatics#Crisislex#Queensland

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Analytics

8.2
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.7
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
bigwetqldfloodsfloodsqldaustraliafloodqueenslandfloodingbrisbaneampbundabergqpsmedianewspeoplewaterlovecoastaffectedriverpowersafeabcnewswarningemergencytoday7newsbrisbaneweathermorninggolddisasterlikeaustralianhelphitlivenswtornadoupdate612brisbaneknownewgoodrainstaytimeareasdayhitsresidentsroad
Topic clusters

Topic 0

love
bigwet
particular
sex
thank
kind
work
woman

Topic 1

qldflood
gold
tim
coast
laugh
auspol
hard
brisbane

Topic 2

australia
flooding
hit
flood
deadly
heavy
military
home

Topic 3

bundaberg
north
evacuation
bigwet
evacuate
resident
burnett
centre

Topic 4

australia
fire
bushfire
flood
heat
bush
flooding
prayer

Topic 5

warning
est
river
qld
creek
flood
major
update

Topic 6

queensland
flood
love
qld
nsw
send
safe
thought

Topic 7

brisbane
river
bigwet
map
available
breaking
water
sheer

Topic 8

appeal
qld
abbott
donate
help
flood
levy
floods

Topic 9

weather
wind
seq
bigwet
wet
damage
like
severe

Topic 10

laugh
haha
hard
bigwet
lol
insane
hate
okay

Topic 11

power
bigwet
bit
clean
warwick
outage
resolve
restore
Show all 15 topics

Topic 12

road
close
highway
traffic
police
report
qldtraffic
bigwet

Topic 13

amp
nswflood
bigwet
crew
qldflood
emergency
qld
sight

Topic 14

queensland
death
bbc
kill
state
toll
record
dead
Top hashtags
#bigwet693
#qldfloods210
#qld43
#brisbane30
#bundaberg24
#australia19
#auspol17
#nswfloods15
#queensland15
#lca201314
#qldflood14
#believeacoustic11
#bnestorm9
#flood9
#floods9
#news9
#tornado9
#nsw8
#goldcoast7
#bargara6
Top emoji
😱2
😳2
🌹1
🐮1
👎1
👼1
😐1
😔1
😘1
😥1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2013_Queensland_floods
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
1,200
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, 280.6 KB 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_Queensland_floods [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_Queensland_floods. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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