[MlMt] Thread Arcs styling options

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 6 Feb 2014, at 14:49, Rob McBroom wrote:

> On 5 Feb 2014, at 15:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> Slightly off topic: The above is something I had not considered for 
>> thread arcs, but I often think it would be really cool if scripts 
>> were created which visualized various statistics about groups of 
>> messages using, e.g., gnuplot or maybe a graphing tool for HTML. For 
>> example, a graph showing the number of emails replied per day, or a 
>> pie chart of top-posters on the MailMate mailing list :-) I’ll 
>> assist anyone with an interest in such visualizations (or even just 
>> simple tables).
>
> For both generating fancy custom thread-arcs and the off-topic stuff, 
> I think [D3.js](http://d3js.org/) would do the trick. It can consume 
> JSON and CSV. Check out some of the demos.

I did do this and I played a bit with it, but I quickly realized I would 
spend far too much time on it if I'm not careful :-) In case someone 
else wants to play with visualizing email stats I've attached a simple 
example bundle. Based on the selected messages, it creates a donut 
visualization of the email clients used (top 5). It's based on the donut 
example found [here](http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3887193). It's not very 
surprising for this mailing list (the hidden names are iPad, iPhone, and 
Apple Mail):

![](cid:DDBCC549-BCC5-4C03-AA05-B5633E0976AA at freron.com "Screen Shot 
2014-02-18 at 11.00.41.png")

The bundle requires the latest test release. Put the bundle in 
`~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Bundles/`, select some messages, 
and then hit ⌃v to generate the donut visualization (opened in a 
browser).

I'll be happy to help anyone with an interest in exploring the potential 
of visualizing email statistics.

(Minor warning: Working on this I noticed some bugs/inconsistencies with 
respect to how MailMate handles missing header values.)

-- 
Benny
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