Arabic Twitter Conversation Dataset about the COVID-19 Vaccine

Huda Alhazmi ()
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Huda Alhazmi: Department of Computer Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 24236, Saudi Arabia

Data, 2022, vol. 7, issue 11, 1-17

Abstract: The development and rollout of COVID-19 vaccination around the world offers hope for controlling the pandemic. People turned to social media such as Twitter seeking information or to voice their opinion. Therefore, mining such conversation can provide a rich source of data for different applications related to the COVID-19 vaccine. In this data article, we developed an Arabic Twitter dataset of 1.1 M Arabic posts regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. The dataset was streamed over one year, covering the period from January to December 2021. We considered a set of crawling keywords in the Arabic language related to the conversation about the vaccine. The dataset consists of seven databases that can be analyzed separately or merged for further analysis. The initial analysis depicts the embedded features within the posts, including hashtags, media, and the dynamic of replies and retweets. Further, the textual analysis reveals the most frequent words that can capture the trends of the discussions. The dataset was designed to facilitate research across different fields, such as social network analysis, information retrieval, health informatics, and social science.

Keywords: COVID-19; pandemic; vaccine; Twitter; dataset; Arabic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 C80 C81 C82 C83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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