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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. Maybe soon.. by aerthling · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Come to think of it, I'm surprised Google haven't already added graphs and stats and crap to GMail the way they have with Search History.

    Maybe it's just a matter of time before something like this appears in the Labs.

    1. Re:Maybe soon.. by brajesh · · Score: 5, Informative

      Mail trends, written by Mihai Parparita (a Google engineer) does something similar and has been there for quite sometime.

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  3. 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...

  4. 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.

  5. Numbers... by KGIII · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In an odd twist of events open source applications never get nearly the response that a good Microsoft or *insert political party of choice* no longer get responses on /. at all really. So, in answer to your question... "No. No one else did and no one is going to. If you could have found a way to tie this into politics or Microsoft you'd have a billion responses."

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