Last year, after starting the job as a faculty member, I decided to analyze my e-mail usage up to that point and discovered that there had been a sharp increase in the number of e-mails sent/received immediately after I started the new job.

I had the impression that things had only escalated since that time so, to continue with the tradition, I decided to run the same analysis this year. The results are in some ways expected: the number of e-mail exchanges has continued to increase. The only difference, though, is that I now feel as if I have almost reached the limits of my ability to process and respond to this flood of e-mails in a timely manner. I have adopted quite a few changes and improved my GMail ninja skills, but this can only take me so far. Who knows what will happen next year…

First, here is the graph with total number of e-mail exchanges per year since 2005:

Annual number of e-mail exchanges

And here is the month-by-month graph for 2011, as of 12/12 when I generated this graph:

Monthly numbers for 2011

Lastly, here is the daily numbers for November 2011:

Daily numbers for November 2011

Let’s hope for a better year, with less e-mail!

All these graphs were created using a nifty piece of python code called mail-trends.

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