CrisisLex — 2013_Singapore_haze

A Twitter dataset of 1,000 tweets, collected by Olteanu et al. via Twitter API during the 2013 Singapore haze crisis. Each record contains tweet text, crisis type, country, event name. The dataset is notable for its tweets from the 2013 Singapore haze crisis, collected systematically across 26 events for comparative analysis. Intended for research into crisis informatics, disaster response, social media analysis, cross-crisis comparison, emergency communication patterns, situation awareness.

#Air pollution#Crisis informatics#Crisislex#Haze#Singapore

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Analytics

7.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.2
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
sghazesingaporehazepsichannelnewsasiastcomupdateneasgindonesiahourreadinglikehitsrangetimeminister321290unhealthyviviancomplainsiaomalaysiatodayonline10pmhazardouslolrecordhotbreakinggotweatheramphighesttodaynewsituationseriouslyworkworkers9pmconstructionmaskpeoplerain8pmflyerhighmasksmrbrown
Topic clusters

Topic 0

blamethehaze
sghaze
school
cancel
trend
hahaha
stop
tonight

Topic 1

reading
high
hit
unhealthy
psi
range
far
hazardous

Topic 2

update
psi
sghaze
stock
healthcare
unity
ntuc
fall

Topic 3

singaporeans
sghaze
record
view
die
singapore
psi
gonna

Topic 4

rise
update
psi
high
increase
die
level
today

Topic 5

news
singapore
haze
bbc
puberty
smog
level
worsen

Topic 6

exactly
window
haze
smoke
leave
sghaze
open
shall

Topic 7

mask
wear
face
share
sghaze
million
deal
safe

Topic 8

indonesia
apologise
indonesian
president
malaysia
child
act
consider

Topic 9

people
haze
singapore
happen
complain
come
happy
wtf

Topic 10

fire
forest
sumatra
company
indonesia
nasa
affect
indonesian

Topic 11

hour
update
psi
moderate
dip
sghaze
enter
nea
Show all 23 topics

Topic 12

blow
kena
speed
fan
singapore
build
turn
need

Topic 13

map
range
reading
psi
world
unhealthy
haze
view

Topic 14

siao
complain
like
weather
hot
season
cold
snow

Topic 15

issue
hour
slow
psi
visibility
reduce
speed
low

Topic 16

construction
worker
place
live
job
despite
good
look

Topic 17

break
hit
psi
advisory
announce
sosingaporean
health
sghaze

Topic 18

vivian
balakrishnan
minister
situation
tweet
order
ministry
live

Topic 19

couple
seriously
lol
sghaze
haha
hahaha
omg

Topic 20

meet
foreign
maybe
indonesia
crazy
government
come
want

Topic 21

time
breaking
new
hazardous
record
range
hit
psi

Topic 22

cloud
ice
seeding
indonesia
option
need
open
vivian
Top hashtags
#sghaze668
#haze68
#singapore55
#blamethehaze15
#psi14
#indonesia12
#sosingaporean9
#sghail8
#sg6
#fb5
#mask4
#mustbethehaze4
#nofilter4
#2903
#blueskies3
#malaysia3
#myhaze3
#pickuplines3
#indonesian2
#justsaying2
Top emoji
🌞8
🍁6
😂6
😏5
🌸2
🌺2
🌼2
😪2
😷2
👍1
😉1
😊1
😍1
😟1
😠1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2013_Singapore_haze
Authors
Olteanu, Alexandra; Vieweg, Sarah; Castillo, Carlos
Year
2015
Source paper
What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises
DOI / arXiv
10.1145/2675133.2675242
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
1,000
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2012-2013 (2010s)
Region
Singapore · Southeast Asia (inferred: named in the description)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://crisislex.org/ link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 383.2 KB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{olteanu2015expect,
  author    = {Olteanu, Alexandra and Vieweg, Sarah and Castillo, Carlos},
  title     = {What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises},
  year      = {2015},
  doi       = {10.1145/2675133.2675241},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
  series    = {CSCW '15},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address   = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Olteanu, A., Vieweg, S., & Castillo, C. (2015). CrisisLex — 2013_Singapore_haze [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Olteanu, Alexandra, et al. CrisisLex — 2013_Singapore_haze. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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