This repository contains all datasets from Sina Weibo, National Health Commission of PR. China and Twitter that were used in the paper "Attention dynamics on the Chinese social media Sina Weibo towards COVID-19 pandemic", which is submitted to EPJ Data Science.
To use these datasets should cite the paper "Attention dynamics on the Chinese social media Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic" by Hao Cui and János Kertész. An arXiv version is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.04418.pdf
The folder Sina_Weibo_HSL contains all the ranks, hashtag names and the timestamps on the Hot Search List (HSL) of Sina Weibo, with a frequency of every 5 minutes, ranges from 2019-12-16 to 2020-04-17.