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