1. Analysis of public emotion on flood disasters in southern China in 2020 based on social media data.
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Ma, Mingjun, Gao, Qiang, Xiao, Zishuang, Hou, Xingshuai, Hu, Beibei, Jia, Lifei, and Song, Wenfang
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FLOOD warning systems ,PROBABILITY density function ,CAPITAL cities ,EMOTIONS ,SOCIAL media ,FLOODS ,NATURAL language processing - Abstract
The exploding popularity of social networks provides a new opportunity to study disasters and public emotion. Among the social networks, Weibo is one of the largest microblogging services in China. Taking Guangdong and Guangxi in the south of China as a case, Web Scraper was used to obtain Weibo texts related to floods in 2020. The spatial distribution of floods was analyzed using Kernel Density Estimation. Public emotion was analyzed using Natural Language Processing tools. The association between floods and public emotion was explored through correlation analysis methods. The results indicated that: (1) Weibo texts could be utilized as effective data to identify urban waterlogging risk in Guangdong and Guangxi. (2) The waterlogging was mainly distributed in the southern part of Guangdong and Guangxi, especially in the provincial capitals and coastal cities. (3) Public emotion was predominantly negative, especially during periods of heavy precipitation. (4) There was a strong correlation between public emotion and floods in spatial–temporal variation. The degree of negative public emotion was significantly influenced by the number of waterlogging points. The presented results serve as the preliminary data for future planning and designing of emergency management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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