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Phone Messages

Sensor parameters description for [PHONE_MESSAGES]:

Key                              Description
[TABLE] Database table where the messages data is stored

RAPIDS provider

Available time segments and platforms

  • Available for all time segments
  • Available for Android only

File Sequence

- data/raw/{pid}/phone_messages_raw.csv
- data/raw/{pid}/phone_messages_with_datetime.csv
- data/interim/{pid}/phone_messages_features/phone_messages_{language}_{provider_key}.csv
- data/processed/features/{pid}/phone_messages.csv

Parameters description for [PHONE_MESSAGES][PROVIDERS][RAPIDS]:

Key                              Description
[COMPUTE] Set to True to extract PHONE_MESSAGES features from the RAPIDS provider
[MESSAGES_TYPES] The messages_type that will be analyzed. The options for this parameter are received or sent.
[FEATURES] Features to be computed, see table below for [MESSAGES_TYPES] received and sent

Features description for [PHONE_MESSAGES][PROVIDERS][RAPIDS]:

Feature Units Description
count messages Number of messages of type messages_type that occurred during a particular time_segment.
distinctcontacts contacts Number of distinct contacts that are associated with a particular messages_type during a particular time_segment.
timefirstmessages minutes Number of minutes between 12:00am (midnight) and the first message of a particular messages_type during a particular time_segment.
timelastmessages minutes Number of minutes between 12:00am (midnight) and the last message of a particular messages_type during a particular time_segment.
countmostfrequentcontact messages Number of messages from the contact with the most messages of messages_type during a time_segment throughout the whole dataset of each participant.

Assumptions/Observations

  1. [MESSAGES_TYPES] and [FEATURES] keys in config.yaml need to match. For example, [MESSAGES_TYPES] sent matches the [FEATURES] key sent