Weibo DataSet related to the Earthquake in Tangshan, China (2020)

This dataset is Weibo Data related to the earthquake on July 12, 2020 in Tangshan, China. Using web crawlers and Weibo API, original Weibo messages were collected with “earthquake” as the keyword. The following information was extracted: user ID, timestamp (i.e., the time when the message was posted), text (i.e., the text message posted by a user), and location information. Then sentiment index was calculated by ‘Tencent’ natural language processing (NLP) API. The data format is Excel. The spatial scope is China. The temporal range is from 00:00 to 24 :00 on July 12, 2020. There are 10,528 Weibo texts.