Email behavior analysis using Pandas

Email is a window to the soul. OK, nobody has actually ever said that, but email is at the very least a permanent log of our daily lives. In fact, I'd argue that out of all the digital interaction we take part in, email is the most honest representation of our actual behavior. Phone calls are too sparse. Text messages capture only a subset of my closest contacts. But email...everybody emails.

So, I was curious what email could tell me about my daily habits and, naturally, I turned to Python and Pandas. This blog will be about exploring ...

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Visualizing My Location History with Python, Shapely, and Basemap

The vast majority of us carry a little GPS device in our pockets all day long, quietly recording our location. But location is more than just latitude and longitude; it can tell us about our speed, our direction, our activities, and frankly our lives. Some people regard this as terrifying, but I see a wonderful dataset.

Initially, I didn't have much of a drive to fiddle with my own location history. What could I really do that Google Latitude couldn't already? But after Latitude's demise in 2013, I entered full fiddle-around mode, and quickly discovered the incredible ...

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