Analyzing Your GMail History 29
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."
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.
Analyze my GMails? (Score:5, Funny)
Wow! (Score:3, Funny)
That's two orders of magnitude more email than I have received in my entire life!
Re:Wow! (Score:5, Funny)
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...
The danger in doing this (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.
Re:Wow! (Score:5, Funny)
So we've established you're not subscribed to the LKML...