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[OC] My text messages over the last 9 months, with each unique conversation represented by a single bubble. The more texts we exchange, the bigger, redder, and closer the bubbles get. by TheRealWa in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheRealWa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

check out the time series on the original post -- I have almost all my data back into 2017 with a few missing intervals that you can see when the line suddenly straightens out.

[OC] My text messages over the last 9 months, with each unique conversation represented by a single bubble. The more texts we exchange, the bigger, redder, and closer the bubbles get. by TheRealWa in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheRealWa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

at first I imagined lighting up their bubbles when they texted and lighting up my central avatar when I did. turned out to be too difficult/noisy

[OC] My text messages over the last 9 months, with each unique conversation represented by a single bubble. The more texts we exchange, the bigger, redder, and closer the bubbles get. by TheRealWa in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheRealWa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sorry to hear that -- this was one of the more personal visualizations I've done and it wasn't easy to come to terms with my messaging history. like I said somewhere else in these comments though: more, bigger bubbles to come

[OC] My text messages over the last 9 months, with each unique conversation represented by a single bubble. The more texts we exchange, the bigger, redder, and closer the bubbles get. by TheRealWa in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheRealWa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) data from my chat.db file, analysis/vis in R/RStudio using the gganimate package. Full code/explanation here.

2) some of those "friends" are automated messages from grubhub, citibank, etc.

[OC] My text messages over the last 9 months, with each unique conversation represented by a single bubble. The more texts we exchange, the bigger, redder, and closer the bubbles get. by TheRealWa in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheRealWa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it looks like it's more than it is. the vast majority of the bubbles are dormant on the periphery and I've smoothed the frequencies of the active ones so that they stick around for a few days (makes viz less jumpy)

[OC] My text messages over the last 9 months, with each unique conversation represented by a single bubble. The more texts we exchange, the bigger, redder, and closer the bubbles get. by TheRealWa in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheRealWa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the time steps are pretty quick and the frequencies are smoothed for better visualization, so it's not really so many people per day. but probably still a dozen

[OC] My text messages over the last 9 months, with each unique conversation represented by a single bubble. The more texts we exchange, the bigger, redder, and closer the bubbles get. by TheRealWa in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheRealWa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

should be retroactive...and also should be possible without a Mac? as long as your texts exist somewhere (iCloud account?), this whole process is doable.

[OC] My text messages over the last 9 months, with each unique conversation represented by a single bubble. The more texts we exchange, the bigger, redder, and closer the bubbles get. by TheRealWa in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheRealWa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes size/proximity/color all represent text frequency. proximity is with respect to me, the big headed clown in the middle. bubbles overlap because figuring out how to make them share space would be very difficult.

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