# Using Twitter Data to Determine Hurricane Category: An Experiment

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05866 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.05866/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 2 of its 10 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 10 Aug 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1301.3781/) (2013)
- [Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data for Predicting Stock Market Movements](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1610.09225/) (2016)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Social media posts contain an abundant amount of information about public opinion on major events, especially natural disasters such as hurricanes. Posts related to an event, are usually published by the users who live near the place of the event at the time of the event. Special correlation between the social media data and the events can be obtained using data mining approaches. This paper presents research work to find the mappings between social media data and the severity level of a disaster. Specifically, we have investigated the Twitter data posted during hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and attempted to find the correlation between the Twitter data of a specific area and the hurricane level in that area. Our experimental results indicate a positive correlation between them. We also present a method to predict the hurricane category for a specific area using relevant Twitter data.