So I spent way too much time working on this over the weekend, but I got Processing to draw what I wanted! I pulled a data set of 2200 text messages off my Android phone, and I created a visualization that creates an animated graph of your social network. The bubbles represent individuals in your network, and their relative size and distance from the center are tied to the number of text messages you’ve been sending them and the “currentness” of your relationship, respectively. People you stop talking to drift out farther in the ring and become dim over time.

Video, just because: