metadata

task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - en
tags:
  - agriculture

What is it?

This dataset includes the main text of Tweets and a binary label indicating if they report the presence of plant pest potato late blight (P. infestans).

The label values are

0 : does not report pest present
1 : reports pest present

This data was produced as part of the publication: Saffer, Ariel, Laura Tateosian, Amanda C. Saville, Yi-Peng Yang, and Jean B. Ristaino. “Reconstructing Historic and Modern Potato Late Blight Outbreaks Using Text Analytics.” Scientific Reports 14, no. 1 (February 15, 2024): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52870-2.