MIT made a tool for analyzing metadata from Gmail

How much can the metadata from your inbox tell about you? A lot - judging by what the researchers from the media laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology managed to achieve.

They created the Immersion web application , which - as soon as you give it permission - will analyze the entire history of your correspondence in Gmail to put together a network of your contacts, writes The Verge.

What is Immersion actually looking at? Only senders, recipients (including CC) and timestamps in your email archive. He does not read the subject of the letters and their contents.

However, the end result is quite impressive, especially if you have a long history of correspondence. An arbitrary list of your contacts may actually be logically related.

“All this data is about people. Data basically doesn't make sense without people, ”said Cesar Hidalgo, one of the creators of Immersion. "When you see them together - in a sense, it is an out-of-body sensation."

Your result may not be so striking, but with the help of Immersion it is possible to show that even with such limited information as metadata, you can visualize the relationships contained within them.