The programmer visualized his correspondence with a girl

Developer Jouan Marcel Pütz posted a visualization of his correspondence with his friend Nicole for 1,500 messages. Pütz later told Look At Me about the history of this correspondence.

To do this, he extracted the correspondence history from November 1, 2012 to September 1, 2014. It contained 3000 messages. Based on the data, he created a Gantt chart to decide which passage from the conversation was best suited for visualization. For example, he wanted the infographic to have a punch line. Pütz did most of the work in Processing.

He divided the extracted messages into four groups: regular, with a link to YouTube, with a smiling emoticon, and with a question. In the infographic they are shown in white, red, yellow and blue colors, respectively. Concentric circles and waves that radiate from the two circles indicate the length of messages received.