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Desktop email clients like Outlook let you do things such as: select all email messages -> save as .txt -> feed the .txt to a python script that extracts useful
by mastazi 9y ago
Desktop email clients like Outlook let you do things such as: select all email messages -> save as .txt -> feed the .txt to a python script that extracts useful data.
If we were using GSuite I guess we could use the Gmail API to get the message body data, but at the end of the day having local access is just more convenient (edit: faster).
Edit: for everything else that is not email (spreadsheet, word processor, presentations) there are also similar advantages related to having full fledged desktop applications.
- matt_wulfeck 9y agoInteresting use case. What exactly are you extracting from email that you’d need a python script for computing?
- mastazi 9y agoWe do clustering on unstructured text and we output data in a Jupyter notebook. It's a proof of concept for now and the production pipeline will be a bit different. The whole Python ecosystem is awesome for this type of prototyping.
- rubidium 9y agoAnd that you couldn't easily do with Microsoft flow and office 365?
- mastazi 9y agoSee my response to parent