Gmail data visualization with D3.js

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	Gmail data visualization with D3.js (luk3thomas.com)
	53 points by luk3thomas 4498 days ago

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kkwok 4498 days ago

This is great! Any chance, you'll be sharing the code for this? Would love to use it on my inbox.

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diziet 4498 days ago

Because D3 is javascript based, the code is already there:

view-source:http://luk3thomas.com/labs/gmail-archive-for-2013-20140224.h...

Just parse your data to look like his: http://luk3thomas.com/labs/data/2014-02-24-gmail-archive-for...

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luk3thomas 4498 days ago

Yep, all the source code is in the page.

view-source:http://luk3thomas.com/labs/gmail-archive-for-2013-20140224.h...

The hard part is parsing your gmail.mbox file from google takeout. You can use `egrep '^From [0-9]|X-Gmail-Labels' gmail.mbox` as a good starting place for finding the labels and dates for each email. Personally, once I had the data I stored that data in a SQL database and ran an aggregate query to count the emails for each label every month.

I'm sure there is a better way to do it.

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orezavi 4496 days ago

I am learning D3.js these days, this is really cool, luk3 :)

I am storing all of my Foursquare checkins into Google Calendar. I'll parse them too later on.

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san_dimitri 4498 days ago

Great job Luke. Would be great if you github the code. I am not a d3 user but write code in JS. Would love to see my inbox as well.

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dudus 4498 days ago

If I'm reading this right you haven't been doing very well on the "keep your inbox clean" department.

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