For this project I collected every text that my girlfriend and I sent to each other since our first text until her birthday. I used a backup software to get the raw data off of my phone. I created a program that would parse the data, filter out other text messages, correct spelling, and add everything to a CSV sheet by word and frequency. I sorted the data in excel, and brought it into illustrator.
The bar graph to the left is a simple frequency bar graph that shows how much we texted from day to day. The circle graph is a radial bar chart. The height of each bar represents the frequency of that word.  The red dots are an orientation device to match the key to the graph.