Twitter COVID-19: Multilingual Tweets from Spain and USA, March 2020 to June 2021

A collection of tweets crawled during the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 to June 2021. Tweets are located in Spain and the USA, providing data in two languages. The dataset was created by citiusLTL and includes weak labels for sentiment and personality traits as part of a broader study.

Use Cases

• Analyze sentiment trends related to the pandemic based on labeled sentiment data mentioned in the description.
• Study the evolution of personality traits during a crisis based on the weak labels for personality dimensions.
• Conduct comparative analysis of public discourse between Spain and the USA based on the geographic and linguistic split.
• Train or fine-tune multilingual language models for social science research based on the Spanish and English text data.

Strengths

• Covers a significant period of the pandemic from March 2020 to June 2021.
• Includes data from two distinct geographic regions (Spain and USA) and languages.
• Provides weak labels for analysis dimensions like sentiment and personality.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the Twitter platform and the specified collection period.

Provenance

Source

huggingface

Collection Method

Crawled from Twitter (X).

Time Range

March 2020 to June 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2023-10-27 18:35:38; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Spain and USA