Instant Messenger Visualization
Daniel Kim
This is a visualizer that uses data from instant messaging clients. The visualizer can display
data from one conversation on one day, to multiple days, or even years, depending on the stored
archives of the messages. This example shows few days worth of messages. There are two separate
lines, each representing a user on the instant messaging client. The white dot at the top of each line
represents the beginning of the data or the conversation. The conversations continue downward, as
seen with the arrows at the bottom and to the left of the image. Each color is used to separate the two
users for easy viewing.
This visualizer mainly shows off the amount of messages received in one time, as can be seen
with the orange and blue colors. Those colors move farther from the center as more messages are
received at one time. The yellow color inside the orange and the darker blue inside the lighter blue
can represent different materials found in each message, like hyperlinks, embedded images, or
emoticons.
