EmailTime: Visual analytics of emails

Abstract

Although the discovery and analysis of communication patterns in large and complex email datasets are difficult tasks, they can be a valuable source of information. This paper presents EmailTime's capabilities through several examples. EmailTime is a visual analysis of email correspondence patterns over the course of time that interactively portrays personal and interpersonal networks using the correspondence in the email dataset. We suggest that integrating both statistics and visualizations in order to display information about the email datasets may simplify its evaluation.