After taking a look at the chat data in my export, I am finally ready to move on to some of the actual mail! Much of what I will look at here is pretty similar to what I was able to turn up with chat data. I tried to branch out a bit, bringing in a new package to create word clouds, and also refactored some of the Takeout Inspector code to form the beginning of a more "formal" report generating process (instead of just spitting out a single HTML file with only a certain subset of the data). Hopefully I can continue to improve this to a point allowing for easier report generation for any user. Anyway, on to the mail data!

• Top 10 Recipients
• Top 10 Senders
• Thread Durations
• Thread Sizes
• Activity by Day of the Week
• Activity by Hour of the Day
• Label Usage
• Subject Word Cloud

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I have been slowly migrating off of a Gmail email address for a couple of months now - I established this domain, selected an email provider, set up SPF, DMARC, etc. and finally created myself a new email address. I updated the address in all of the obvious places, but still found myself using Gmail frequently to keep up. At some point I realized that the only way to finish the migration would be to do something with all the email I had hoarded away in Gmail.

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