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Group Conversation Analysis (Whatsapp conversation)

While considering options for this project I thought it was very interesting to try to download a conversation from whatsapp and format it into a dataframe, this way I could practice coding a little bit more.

The dataset is a group conversation that includes my brother and sister and their partners, aswell as me and my partner.

Since interactions among inlaws is always fun to watch, I thought it would be interesting to analyse who interacts the most in the group, who sends the longest messages, common interaction hours, etc.

Most of what I've done here I've learned in the course Data Analysis with Python: Zero to Pandas, the rest, I've had to learn by reading documentation or other peoples examples in github, etc.

How to run the code

This is an executable Jupyter notebook hosted on Jovian.ml, a platform for sharing data science projects. You can run and experiment with the code in a couple of ways: using free online resources (recommended) or on your own computer.

Option 1: Running using free online resources (1-click, recommended)

The easiest way to start executing this notebook is to click the "Run" button at the top of this page, and select "Run on Binder". This will run the notebook on mybinder.org, a free online service for running Jupyter notebooks. You can also select "Run on Colab" or "Run on Kaggle".

Option 2: Running on your computer locally
  1. Install Conda by following these instructions. Add Conda binaries to your system PATH, so you can use the conda command on your terminal.

  2. Create a Conda environment and install the required libraries by running these commands on the terminal:

conda create -n zerotopandas -y python=3.8 
conda activate zerotopandas
pip install jovian jupyter numpy pandas matplotlib seaborn opendatasets --upgrade
  1. Press the "Clone" button above to copy the command for downloading the notebook, and run it on the terminal. This will create a new directory and download the notebook. The command will look something like this:
jovian clone notebook-owner/notebook-id
  1. Enter the newly created directory using cd directory-name and start the Jupyter notebook.
jupyter notebook

You can now access Jupyter's web interface by clicking the link that shows up on the terminal or by visiting http://localhost:8888 on your browser. Click on the notebook file (it has a .ipynb extension) to open it.

Downloading the Dataset

TODO - As my dataset if extracted from my whatsapp conversations, I just uploades the text file.

Instructions for downloading the dataset (delete this cell)

!pip install jovian opendatasets --upgrade --quiet