WhatsApp chat analysis of a weird 4-years long friendship
People from all nationality and from every place over the world have been waiting for this moment.
The data analysis of the WhatsApp chat of Angelo and Claudio is finally done. And it’s reported here, for you.
If you are reading this, you should know at least one of them. Or maybe you know none.
No worries, you don’t need that much of explanation about their personality.
You only have to know that since they first met back in September 2017, the more time has passed the crazier their friendship has become. Indeed, there are a lot of rumors about their activities: someone said that during these years they became presenters of a TV show, interviewers for a nature documentary, singers of the melody of a famous cleaning product ad, and a lot more.
Others said that they are astrophysical scientists coming from another planet named ‘Pianeta Paradiso’, which might explain the reason why they are kind of weird but somehow fit together.
Anyway, an entire PhD might not be enough for explaining the behaviors of these two human beings, so let’s go straight to the analysis.
For the most curious ones, Python is being used, along with two libraries: Pandas for data preprocessing and data manipulation, and Plotly for data visualization.
The visualizations are made to be interactive, but only the static ones are uploaded here, except for the last one which nicely summarizes the earlier visuals.
The period being analyzed goes from the 14th of May 2017 to the 4th of December 2020.
Who texts more?
Let’s start with the simplest question: who has texted more? Both of them are known for using the phone a little bit carelessly, especially when it comes to answer to messages. Let’s then check the number of messages they have sent to each other from 2017 to 2020.
Apparently, Angelo has sent more messages than Claudio every year, but what can be noticed is that in 2017 and 2018 the difference among them was far smaller than in 2019 and 2020. This might be explained by the “annoying” way Angelo texts when he gets confidential with a person; that is, by sending 10 separate messages for writing a phrase of 10 words.
Who sends more media?
Another simple question might be who has sent more images, videos or audios.
When it comes to send audios, Claudio is the perfect fit because texting is too much boring for his soul; on the other hand, when it comes to listen to an audio which lasts more than 27 seconds, Claudio has to meditate inside an empty sterilized room for 10 minutes and watch Michele Boldrin’s economics videos before listening to the vocal without throwing the phone away and never listen to it again.
Let’s see if we can find out something in the next visual.
As expected, Claudio sends more audios than Angelo, and the number of images seems to be slightly larger for him as well. Surprisingly, Angelo sends a lot of audios even if he knows that Claudio would prefer jumping from the 7th floor of a building instead. Hopefully for both of them, these audios last less than 27 seconds.
Which emojis are most used?
Neither Claudio nor Angelo is that kind of person who is keen to use emojis, but the curiosity is so strong that we can’t help but trying to discover what’s hidden in the next visuals.
The number of emojis is very low in both cases. However, the “type” of emojis being used appears to be different among the two astrophysicists; in fact, Angelo tends to use cute and sweet emojis, while Claudio’s ones are prevalently laughing faces.
Who says more “Fra” and “Mbare”?
First, a little bit of background for you, who can’t speak Italian, and you, who hasn’t grown up in the southern/eastern part of Sicily.
In a few words, “Fra” is the Italian equivalent of “Bro”, while “Mbare” is used for saying “friend”, “mate”, etc. You can use these words as intercalary in conversations, such as commas and pauses. Some people abuse of these words and use them constantly like the whole dictionary is only made by them.
Actually, the meaning of “Mbare” is way more; by saying it with the right intonation, you can express happiness, fear, sadness, disappointment, etc. Again, a scientific peer-reviewed paper would not be enough here, so let’s move to the next visual.
It looks that Angelo belongs to those people who think they can communicate in 2020 only by meaning of “Fra”. Unexpectedly, the number of “Mbare” is quite smaller with respect to his expectations, which resulted in quite a huge disappointment and sadness for him. Claudio’s number are even worse, in particular for “Mbare”. After this news, he said he realized that he was becoming an horrible person and he immediately gave up everything for doing a spiritual rehabilitating path through the eastern cost of Sicily.
Who laughs more?
Once in a café a young boy waiting in the line for coffee saw accidentally ahead of him the chat of Claudio and Angelo and immediately thought they were speaking some sort of a tribal language made just by consecutive combinations of “AHAH”, “Ahah” and “ahah” symbols. The innocent and naïve soul of that boy could never think that Angelo and Claudio were laughing on a meme about the failure of their IELTS exam.
Therefore, the question comes now naturally: how many messages contain some text of the form “AHAH..”, “Ahah…”, “ahah..”? And who laughs more?
Curiously, the number of laughs have increased at the same rate for both Angelo and Claudio until February 2019. After that, Angelo’s number of laugh has increased faster than Claudio’s one, until around October 2020 when their lines touch each other again for then getting separated again in Angelo’s favor. In particular, right in this period between September 2020 and December 2020 it seems that the number of laughs increased with a very steep rate with respect to the rest of the analyzed period. Until the 4th of December of 2020, Angelo has laughed 2355 times, while Claudio 2208 times.
P.S. I know, you are even more curious and you want to know which of these laughs were caps lock! Don’t worry, I got it for you. Check the final interactive visualization!
Overall interactive visualization
The next and final visual is interactive, which means that you can play with it! In particular, if you go to the link and click on each slice of the pie, the graph will adapt conveniently for checking everything in a more comfortable way.
If you made it this far, I sincerely want to thank you for your time and for reading all of this. Stay safe!
