[MlMt] Visualize bundle

[Christopher LILJENSTOLPE]

Greetings,

On 6 Aug 2015, at 5:13, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> Hi MailMate users,
>
> if you haven't already noticed it then there is a new bundle available 
> in the Bundles preferences pane. Its name is “Visualize” and its 
> main purpose is to make cool visualizations of email history and 
> trends. After enabling it in the Bundles preferences pane then you 
> should have two new menu items in the Command menu. Select a (large) 
> set of emails (⌘A) and then try them out. Don't forget to hover the 
> mouse over various parts of the images to get more info.
>
> The bundle was created by Sherif Soliman (thanks!) with a bit of my 
> help and it's **work-in-progress**. If you have feature requests or 
> any issues to report then use the [Github 
> issues](https://github.com/sheriferson/Visualize.mmBundle/issues) 
> page. General remarks can be sent to this list where Sherif is also 
> available. [Github](https://github.com/sheriferson/Visualize.mmBundle) 
> is also where the main repository resides in case you want to 
> contribute to the bundle or you want to check out a cutting-edge 
> version (the bundle available via the Bundles preferences pane is my 
> fork of the bundle).
>
> Currently the bundle uses Safari to display an HTML page. This page 
> uses the [D3.js](http://d3js.org) JavaScript library to do the 
> visualizations. Sherif also added some buttons to save the results as 
> image files. You can see some examples on the [Github 
> page](https://github.com/sheriferson/Visualize.mmBundle). I was 
> actually a bit surprised to see that “View ▸ Distortion Mode” 
> works, but I guess that's quite convenient :-)
>
> I had a lot of fun analyzing the mailing list and my sent messages. I 
> used MailMate to create smart mailboxes with various subsets of emails 
> and then I used the bundle to visualise the results. The following two 
> images are based on my Sent Messages mailbox (emails since I got my 
> own server as part of working on MailMate). The first one shows I 
> write almost half of my emails on Tuesday+Wednesday. The other one 
> shows that I don't like to write emails in the night unless I'm on 
> vacation in Thailand (February, 2013). You can even see that I rarely 
> write emails 18.00-20.00 (family time). It's also quite obvious that 
> the email “burden” has gotten worse over the years, but it appears 
> to have been at its “worst” late 2013 which is exactly when I did 
> the crowd funding campaign.
>
> Note that the quality of the images has been reduced to allow 
> inclusion on the mailing list. It looks much better when using the 
> bundle.


This wasn't working for me.  It turns out that it doesn't work when 
using Chrome.  Since Chrome is my default browser, that's what gets 
called to show the graphs.  If I then paste the URL into safari, it 
works.

	Christopher


>
> Have fun!
>
> Known “issues”:
>
> * MailMate cannot not include children of collapsed items when calling 
> a command.
> * For large selections of emails then the “Emails by Sender” 
> command needs some way to limit the number of “categories”. A 
> histogram with thousands of bars is not readable (but hovering with 
> the mouse still works quite well).
>
> ![](cid:B1C78C8F-8062-4014-B953-EA1FF76EFC17 at freron.com "day.png")
>
> ![](cid:23852023-D109-4275-B6C7-84C407B0829A at freron.com "time.png")
>
> -- 
> Benny
>
> [day.png]
>
> [time.png]
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