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Show HN: Visualizing 9 years of relationships with instant message frequency
- cbabraham 11y agoVisualizing this dataset has been my end of year side project for a few years now. The hardest part was matching hundreds of friend's various usernames across different services to the same person. It's a process that's difficult to automate, even with some helper scripts it took a couple days to manually curate the mapping. The svgs for the grid are in pre-rendered static files made with node/jsdom, which was pretty fun to write. Data sources: Skype history file Facebook data download Google Voice and Google Hangouts data download Email (for oldschool gchats) iPhone backups, for SMS/iMessage Slack API
- jnfr 11y agoSuper impressive that you kept all that data over so many years. Great job!
- asadm 11y agoI have also been collecting my sms data for almost a decade now. Symbian and Android had options to extract to xml/txt. But after I got Windows Phone and iPhone, it is harder for me to extract all texts but they are there in the cloud. I will have to extract and normalize them somehow.