brayvid / visualize-searches

Explore search trends in a "MyActivity.html" file from Google Takeout.

Graph your Google searches in the browser.

• Words in searches are counted. Common words like "the" and "what" are ignored.
• The list is divided into intervals (bins) by timestamp, and the most frequent word in each bin is selected.
• Each selected word's count-in-bin is plotted with time. Clicking on a word toggles its graph on and off.
• p5 and JQuery are used via CDN links in the index.html file.

Usage

• The files study.js, ignored.js and index.html need to be served to your browser, in addition to a "MyActivity.html" file from Google. This can be found at https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout. Select: My Activity > Select specific activity data > (Choose a service), and follow the prompts.
• Start a local web server from your working directory. Here is one option: https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server.
• Open the browser console, navigate to localhost, and wait a few seconds to a couple minutes for the window to appear, depending on the size of the MyActivity file.

Results (Youtube)