A Google developer recently released Mail Trends, a Phyton based program that analyzes and visualizes email data. Developer Mihai Parparita is associated with Google Reader, so if you are familiar with the Trends page in Google Reader you may see some similarities with the version for Gmail.
Google Mail Trends can show distribution data of messages by year, month, day, day of week and time of day as well as distribution of messages by size and a user’s top 40 largest messages. If you want to know the top people you send mail to, you can do so as Google Mail Trends can also show your emails’ incoming and outgoing traffic.
To date, Google Mail Trends is only available for Gmail use only. But knowing Google, they might offer the mail trends to other e-mail services that can be extracted from an IMAP server. Other data that can be gathered include: the top senders, recipients and mailing lists you’re on, distributions of senders, recipients and mailing lists over time, and the distribution of thread lengths and the lists and people that result in the longest threads. More like everything you want to know about your web mail activity. Ideally, only a few minutes is what it will take to generate the e-mail data but if you have tens of thousands of mails, then it may take awhile.
Via [Googlified]
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