Whatsapp Wordcloud

Wordcloud is a great way to quickly visualise chunks of words. From a data enthusiast perspective, a wordcloud generated from personal conversations makes a great gift.They are personal, simple to create and aesthetically pleasing.

Wordcloud generated from a whatsapp group conversation using R

I have generated the cloud using R, with the package "wordcloud". Though I said that it is simple to generate one, I did spend a few hours to get the nitty gritty sorted out. It didn't help that I am rusty with the regex operations in R.

Codes below :)
To get the whatsapp conversation as a text file, simply email the conversation to yourself.

Steps:

1. Start Whatsapp
2. Long press on the conversation
3. Select email conversation
4. Download the conversation from your email

How it started

Every blog has its own story. They are unique that each has its own ideals, purposes and reasons. For the longest time, I had wanted to start an old fashion blog to jot down my journey in the field of data analytics. Somewhat like a journal which others can also benefit from. I should have started this when I began my formal education in Data Analytics. Procrastination had the better of me. One fine evening, during my days as an unemployed loafers, I got down to starting this blog. Despite the anticlimatic start, I aim to fill this space with entries with nuggets of my experience and challenges that I faced in data mining, machine learning and statistical analysis endeavours.