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Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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It would be real creepy if someone does the same thing for Whatsapp, you can even predict who's talking to each other much better than Facebook. It's a bit harder to collect data from web.whatsapp.com because it's using Websockets but let me know if someone develop such tool and publish it on Github. :)

There was a capability to do this, at least last year:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/17/whatsapp-spy-too...

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Tho only drawback I see with nvd3.js is that we can't generate png images of the graphs, server-side, for email of PDF export. Is there an nvd3-js-to-png.java ;)?

It's called PhantomJS :P

What? You don't already have it installed?

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Some people might take issue with it, but the writing for this had me in stitches. I very much agree with the author on graphing libraries - there are a few good simple ones, but as soon as you want anything unusual you have to jump to these big, hard to configure monstrosities. More than once I've just given up and written my own server-side generator.

I swear by Highcharts. It's big, and paid for commercial use, but you can chart pretty much anything with it, make it look exactly like you want, and it's relatively easy to get started and make nice interactive charts. No affiliation, I just use it for work: http://www.highcharts.com/

Yep. Love HighCharts and HighStock in particular which allows you to create wonderful time series charts.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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post #38

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HighCharts is awesome. I'm a big fan as well. I've used it for school projects and work before, and was amazed by the documentation and API capabilities. Everything is configurable and easy to figure out.

I'm still not sure how the "Free for Non-Commercial" license interacts with something like the GPL - it seems like I'd have to use BSD in my projects instead if I wanted to use this in open-source stuff. Edit: it's Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0. I wonder if that stops me running ads on a site that uses it.

FWIW in past I just emailed them asking for clarification about whether I needed a commercial license with my specific use case and they responded quickly and straightforwardly. Seems the easiest thing to do is just ask them rather than guessing or trying to interpret how the license is meant to be used.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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post #30

It would be real creepy if someone does the same thing for Whatsapp, you can even predict who's talking to each other much better than Facebook. It's a bit harder to collect data from web.whatsapp.com because it's using Websockets but let me know if someone develop such tool and publish it on Github. :)

I've done it. Just embed a javascript on to the web.whatsapp.coom page that tracks when the div says online. It works quite well.

There are even better ways which I'd rather not reveal.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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post #52

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Maybe you should go out more?

Were you equally aggravated by the people who said how much they liked the writing style? Sorry, won't be able to get into a long conversation, I'm heading to a bar.

It only gets funnier when you reply bitterly.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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post #30

It would be real creepy if someone does the same thing for Whatsapp, you can even predict who's talking to each other much better than Facebook. It's a bit harder to collect data from web.whatsapp.com because it's using Websockets but let me know if someone develop such tool and publish it on Github. :)

I'm interested in why you think you could do better predictions using WhatsApp?

There's a subset of my Facebook friends, mostly older/family who are slow to reply to messages on Facebook and only use Facebook in 'down time' or whatever but are available by text all day. Since they got smartphones years ago, by text has meant by Whatsapp.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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I'm interested in why you think you could do better predictions using WhatsApp?

There's a subset of my Facebook friends, mostly older/family who are slow to reply to messages on Facebook and only use Facebook in 'down time' or whatever but are available by text all day. Since they got smartphones years ago, by text has meant by Whatsapp.

The way I was looking at it was people will get messages on WhatsApp but won't reply immediately. Same on Facebook. But people will also visit Facebook.com when ignoring messages so you still get online status info even if they aren't specifically using the chat. If you could look at WhatsApp and Facebook and combine the data you'd probably get a really accurate overview.
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