A first public dataset from Brazilian twitter and news on COVID-19 in Portuguese

In this data article, we provide a collection of 3,925,366 tweets and 18,413 online news around the online discussion about COVID-19 in Brazil. The data from Twitter were collected through Twitterscraper Python library and we considered a set of keywords in Portuguese regarding to COVID-19. In order...

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Main Authors: Tiago de Melo, Carlos M.S. Figueiredo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-10-01
Series:Data in Brief
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920310738