facebook-message-analysis

1. Download your Facebook messenger history from your Facebook settings. More here.
2. Unzip your data into the directory of your choice.
3. Identify a person whose chat history you want to analyze (if you want to run analysis for a single person) and copy the path to his subdirectory, or copy the path to the root data directory.
   1. We will refer to this folder's path as ${FOLDER}.
4. Clone this repository and change directory into it.

git clone https://github.com/Kodnot/facebook-message-analysis.git && cd facebook-message-analysis

5. Install any dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

6. If you get an NTLK download error, use this command to resolve the issue. It will tell NTLK to download the appropriate stopwords file.

python
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download('stopwords')
>>> quit()

7. Launch the bokeh app locally, passing the folder containing the conversation files as an argument

bokeh serve --show fbmessages/ --args **${FOLDER}**

In a few seconds, you should get some nice interactive visualizations. Here's a demo of what the visualizations look like: