Since it’s the last semester going on and our degree is about to end, the idea that MUA had shared first 2 years ago, which I had later become disinterested in, resurfaced in my curiosity.
So I did that—analysis of WhatsApp group chat of our class. Here’s the gist of around 4200 messages sent in span of 15 months.
Note: Words message and edited were WhatsApp generated and thus do not count as valid. The 6th most used word (at 8th no.) was a teacher’s name.
These were the charts I sent in the group and asked my fellows if they were curious to know about something else.
One was about message count of others apart from the top 25. This shows us the total distribution.
Another was about who most used the most used words, specifically the most used word class and the teacher name at 8th no.
The funny part was when the class-fellow who was the 3rd (/2nd) person with highest mentions of that teacher asked when she had taken that teacher’s name. So, I filtered the dataframe with her as sender and text containing that teacher’s name, and sent the results. The results included that instance when she was ranking (satirically) various teachers and some other students were provoking her. The texts are very hilarious but can’t be shared here since they contain TMI.
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The most tedious part in the whole exercise was mapping the missing phone numbers (those not in contacts) to the names of students by searching for any instance when a text containing the roll number or other identifiable information was shared from that number.
Anyways, this was the overview of the group which was formed around 4th semester when morning and replica classes were merged. In the earlier group of morning class, messages were sent in an amount incomprehensible for me. Explains why I had joined that group several months later.
The part that hit the most was when I thought of converting my R script for analysing whatsapp chat export into an R package, and found that someone had already built that 😭. Had I known that before, I wouldn’t have needed to write that script. (Actually, I am not sure. I probably wouldn’t have found this interesting if I wasn’t writing the code. Maybe I would have. Who knows?)