So I’ve been looking at my inbox. I felt like I’ve been getting more email than usual so I’ve put that theory to the test:<\/p>\n
I’ve been collecting my INBOX size every hour for the past year, which makes it easier.<\/p>\n
Data as CSV<\/a> [CC-BY]<\/p>\n First a basic graph of time vs INBOX size<\/a> is a start… you can see the peak where I went to the sea-side and didn’t answer my email!<\/p>\n But to work out how loaded I am, a differencial is more useful: Hourly change in INBOX<\/a> which is unreadable, so lets add a 168 hour (one week) rolling average: Hourly change in INBOX, Weekly rolling average<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nearly there, but it’s only increases that I’m interested in so lets make a Hourly increases in INBOX, weekly rolling average<\/a>.<\/p>\n So I can clearly see from this that my email inbox increases remain at an average of 2-3 per hour. Obviously any hour where I answer email will be ignored, so it’s imperfect, and I get far more email in week days so the actual number is probably higher,\u00a0 but it shows that the steady rate isn’t unsually high right now.<\/p>\n