BetaBetaDataset
To provides a real-time overview of ongoing flood events based on filtered Twitter data
This study is as part of ongoing research into the use of online media in flood monitoring, researchers at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM - VU University Amsterdam) and FloodTags released a new paper1 and tool that globally detects and monitors flood events
Dataset contains a generated real-time world-map visualizing of flood events, regions and their relevant tweets. The platform also provides access to historical floods events dating back to July 2014.
The data was extracted using flood Tags, among other data, real-time Twitter data using Twitter’ streaming API