Disaster Tweet Detection
Twitter has become an important communication channel in times of emergency. The ubiquitousness of smartphones enables people to announce an emergency they’re observing in real-time. Because of this, more agencies are interested in programatically monitoring Twitter (i.e. disaster relief organizations and news agencies). However, it’s not always clear whether a person’s words are actually announcing a disaster. The objective of this project is to build a machine learning model that predicts which Tweets are about real disasters and which ones aren’t. I had access to a dataset of 10,000 tweets that were hand classified.
I submitted my model into a Kaggle competition titled “Natural Language Processing with Disaster Tweets“ and got an accuracy score of 78% for test data. Click the button below to view the submission on Kaggle.com, or view my complete jupyter notebook below.