DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12570525
title: Data Donation with Dona: De-identified Messaging Data (WhatsApp and Facebook) and Evaluation Responses

description: General information

The dataset contains de-identified messaging meta-data from 78 WhatsApp and 7 Facebook data donations. The dataset was collected in an online study using the data donation platform Dona. After donating their messaging data, the study participants viewed visual summaries of their messaging data and evaluated this visual feedback. The responses to the evaluation questions and the sociodemographic data of the participants are also included in the dataset.  

The data was collected from August 2022 to June 2024. 

For more information on Dona, the associated publications and updates, please visit https://mbp-lab.github.io/dona-blog/. 

File description



donation_table.csv - contains general information about the donations including



donation_id: donation identifier

donor_id: the ID of the donor to distinguish the messages sent by them from those sent by contacts

source: the messaging platform from which the data is donated (WhatsApp or Facebook)

external_id: ID used to connect messaging data with the survey data



 messages_table.csv - contains the donated messages including



conversation_id: chat identifier

sender_id: sender identifier

datetime: time of the message, UNIX time for Facebook and device time for WhatsApp

word_count: word count of the messages achieved by splitting the text based on whitespace

donation_id: donation identifier (also listed in donation_table.csv)



messages_filtered_table.csv - same structure as messages_table.csv except that chats with no considerable interactions were removed. This was defined as chats where donor's word count contribution was less than 10% or more than 90%. 

survey.xlsx → contains survey responses of the participants.

survey_table_coding.xlsx → contains the mapping between the column names in survey.xlsx and their meaning, including the original survey questions and response options. Different sheets of the Excel file detail the survey questions and responses in one of the study languages (English, German, Armenian). 




Request access:

If you would like to request access to these files, please reach out to  Dr. Olya Hakobyan at olya.hakobyan@uni-bielefeld.de. 

You need to satisfy these conditions in order for this request to be accepted:



Individuals wishing to use the data set must hold an academic affiliation. Further to this, they have to download and fill out the End User License Agreement (EULA) and submit it to us.



This dataset is intended for research purposes only. 
description: The dataset has already been checked for identical donations which have been removed. In addition, some WhatsApp donations including messages with unusual dates in the future have been removed. Below is a list of these donations and the number of removed messages. 




donation_id
number of removed messages


e8fe298a-4411-41be-98d3-aca1d9457e96
64


760360a8-cdb8-41d6-a7f3-8b539d8eb049
3


269abde1-e7b5-4363-bb96-ee1839164764
5706
description: Request access

If you would like to request access to these files, please reach out to olya.hakobyan@uni-bielefeld.de

You need to satisfy these conditions in order for this request to be accepted:



Individuals wishing to use the data set must hold an academic affiliation. Further to this, they have to download and fill out the End User License Agreement (EULA) and submit it to us. It will be available here soon.