Mail Trends: what's your email look like on a graph?

Posted Mar 26th 2008 11:00AM by Danny Mendez
Filed under: Fun, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Google, Freeware, web 2.0

Ever wonder what your email behavior looks like on a graph? Because if you have, we've good news for some of you -- well, those of you that use Gmail. Google coder Mihai Parparita just released a Python program called Mail Trends, which can show you various graphs of data extracted from your email account. You can examine your email behavior from various angles:

Distribution of messages by year, month, day, day of week and time of day
Distribution of messages by size and your top 40 largest messages
The top senders, recipients and mailing lists you're on.
Distributions of senders, recipients and mailing lists over time
The distribution of thread lengths and the lists and people that result in the longest threads

If you don't use Gmail, fear not. The plan is to eventually release a version that works with other email services, though it is unknown when that version will see the light of day.

[via Googlified]

Tags: analyze, data, email, gmail, graph, trend, trends

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-26-2008 @ 11:16AM

Todd said...

My mail graph looks like this:

99.8% spam ( chart goes off the screen )
00.1% machine generated mail from the various web sites I am a user of ( valid mail but low utility )
00.1% Written communications from humans I actually know in real life.

Email is being referred to as "E fail" by Tantek Çelik:

http://tantek.com/log/2008/02.html

He advocates using only Twitter and two wikis ( public and private ) to replace email entirely.

3-26-2008 @ 11:32AM

ipodrulz said...

n00bs like me can't install this :'(

3-26-2008 @ 11:32AM

ipodrulz said...

n00bs like me can't install this :'(

3-26-2008 @ 1:03PM

Jonny said...

cool, I'll check this out when I get home

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