Analyze Reaction to Hurricane IRMA through Tweet Data

the trends of four major topics on reaction to hurricane IRMA

We captured tweets originated 250-mile radius near Fort Myers, Florida within a week around the landfall of the disaster. We then performed topic modeling to investigate the consensus reaction to hurricane IRMA. Finally, we fitted several time series models to examine the topics’ trends through times. We hoped that this could be developed as a framework to track people behaviors through disasters. This work was presented in SAS Global Forum 2018.