What is this?

This is a tool that helps you explore and visualize your own Facebook Messenger History.

What am I seeing?

In the central pane, you can see all your messages. Horizontally you've got the date, and vertically the time of day. Each dot represents a message that you sent or received. This central pane can be zoomed to see more detail

Clicking the menu icon in the top left , will open a pane containing a list of all your chats. From here you can select and the central view will be updated accordingly. You can also give each chat a unique color by clicking the palette icon at the top of the pane.

Clicking the Filters button in the top right will open a pane containing a bunch of histograms. These histograms give you statistics about your messages (number of messages sent, most active conversation, etc..), but more interestingly, they allow you to filter your analysis. If you click on a bar, you can keep only the messages corresponding to this attribute, and all the other graphs will update automatically. This way, you can analyse for example who sends more messages in a particular conversation. Or what conversations are more active on the weekend versus during the week.

Finally, if you mouse over the dots in the central pane, you can see the content of each message in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen.

How to proceed?

The data displayed behind this window is random data. Do some tests to understand how it works, then click on "Explore my data" to play with your messages.

Authors : Mathilde Reynaud | Augustin Durivault