Skarkov started as a project to create markov chains from my family's emails. To do this, I used the Gmail API to get all emails that included the five of us, and began creating and tweeting the chains.
Once I had all our emails stored in a database, one thing led to another, I blacked out, and now I have a full blown analysis of our history, including facts like, who has the fastest average response time? and who responds to me the most?
My favorite discovery: My mother is by far the most enthusiastic emailer of the family.
You can find more info about the site here:
http://www.skarkov.com/faq
Melissa Skevington is a software engineer in San Francisco, CA.