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Analyzing Your GMail History

Posted by timothy on from the gmail-needs-a-'generate-report'-button dept.

thbar writes "I had some fun analyzing my whole GMail account data with Mac OS X, Ruby and software called Tableau. I'd be curious to know if others did the same thing, and how they achieved it."

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  1. Analyze my GMails? by Jupix · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought common consensus was that Google are already busy analyzing the hell out of them...

  2. Wow! by Chemisor · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's two orders of magnitude more email than I have received in my entire life!

    1. Re:Wow! by Al+Oser · · Score: 5, Funny

      You need to make more friends.

      My internet friends e-mail me all the time, telling me how I can "turn my banana in to a steel pole"! They're always looking out for me...

    2. Re:Wow! by adamofgreyskull · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's two orders of magnitude more email than I have received in my entire life!

      So we've established you're not subscribed to the LKML...

  3. The danger in doing this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I ensured that all the emails were downloaded by using the Mailbox / Synchronize menu item (and that took quite a long time â" a couple of hours to the least).

    I'd love to do a similar analysis on my Gmail mail box. But I've already watched a Netflix movie and downloaded a couple iTunes - downloading my Gmail might exceed some Comcast quota.