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Parsers and visualizations for chats

Getting your data


As of now, only WhatsApp chats are supported. Steps to export a WhatsApp chat:

  • Go to the app
  • Go to Settings/Chats/Chat History
  • Tap Export chat
  • Select the chat you want to export

Parsing the chatfile


The following code uses the WhatsAppParser module to:

  • Read a chatfile
  • Infer its datetime format
  • Parse its content into a DataFrame
  • Add additonal metadata columns
from chatminer.chatparsers import WhatsAppParser

parser = WhatsAppParser(FILEPATH)
parser.parse_file_into_df()
print(parser.df.describe())

Creating Visualizations


Sunburst Chart

import chatminer.visualizations as vis
vis.sunburst(parser.df)

Sunburst


Wordcloud

import chatminer.visualizations as vis
stopwords = ['media', 'omitted', 'missed', 'voice', 'call']
vis.wordcloud(parser.df, stopwords)

Wordcloud