System and method for analyzing and visualizing team conversational data

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein a program for making a computer execute a method of analyzing conversational messages, the method comprising:

• receiving a query defining a timespan of messages, wherein the defined timespan comprises a calendar month;
• retrieving at least one conversational message associated with the defined timespan from a plurality of interleaved messages;
• retrieving at least one message author associated with the defined timespan from a plurality authors associated with the plurality of interleaved messages;
• de-threading two or more messages from the plurality of interleaved messages to identify at least one conversational thread;
• and
• generating a visualization of conversational threads based on the defined timespan, the at least one conversational message and the at least one message author, the visualization organized into time intervals based on the defined timespan, the visualization comprising:
• a plurality of rows, each row representative of a week of the calendar month;
• a plurality of columns, each column representative of a day of a week of the calendar month;
• and
• at least one graphical representation associated with the at least one conversational thread, wherein the graphical representation comprises:
• an open shape representative of the at least one conversational thread, wherein the size of the open shape corresponds to a number of messages in the at least one conversational thread;
• and
• at least one graphical icon within the open shape, the at least one graphical icon representative of an author associated with at least one of the messages in the at least one conversational thread.

A computer apparatus configured to analyze a corpus comprising a plurality of unstructured messages, the computer apparatus comprising:

• a memory storing the plurality of interleaved messages;
• and
• a processor executing a process comprising:
• receiving a query defining a timespan of messages, wherein the defined timespan comprises a calendar month;
• retrieving at least one conversational message associated with the defined timespan from a plurality of interleaved messages;
• retrieving at least one message author associated with the defined timespan from a plurality authors associated with the plurality of interleaved messages;
• de-threading two or more messages from the plurality of interleaved messages to identify at least one conversational thread;
• and
• generating a visualization of conversational threads based on the defined timespan, the at least one conversational message and the at least one message author, the visualization organized into time intervals based on the defined timespan, the visualization comprising:
• a plurality of rows, each row representative of a week of the calendar month;
• a plurality of columns, each column representative of a day of a week of the calendar month;
• and
• at least one graphical representation associated with the at least one conversational thread, wherein the graphical representation comprises:
• an open shape representative of the at least one conversational thread, wherein the size of the open shape corresponds to a number of messages in the at least one conversational thread;
• and
• at least one graphical icon within the open shape, the at least one graphical icon representative of an author associated with at least one of the messages in the at least one conversational thread.