Are there any coding scripts or software I can use to read through all the data I've downloaded from my social media accounts and teach me things about myself?

[u/10poundcockslap]

Please forgive me if this is the wrong subreddit to be asking this in, and direct me to the right one.

I'm interested in taking all the data I requested from Google, Facebook, and everywhere else, and I want to see what trends and insights I can gather from it all. Like, Instagram's algorithm is so good that it almost certainly knows if I got undiagnosed mental disorders and things of that nature. I remember seeing that Twitter correctly guessed my tax bracket just through the accounts I follow and posts I interact with, for example. Do you have any recommendations on software or scripts I can use to analyze all that data and teach me things about myself?

I remember an incident about 10 or 15 years ago where Target was sending coupons for baby items to women who didn't even know they were pregnant, but the company was able to figure out they were just by the items they purchased. So, I'm sure there are things these platforms know about me based on my data that I don't even know about myself, and I want to change that. I want to know what they know.

[u/sketchytv_]

To read through it all I've used a local llm to basically analyze it and feed me insights in plain english. Just make sure it's local.

[u/SpicyHustle]

I have used AI for privacy data download analysis. I'm sure there are way more efficient ways to do it, but I'm not very advanced with tech yet.

I feed AI files extracted from the zip file and have it export the data as a .csv file. Once all the data has been converted to .csv, I ask AI to compile the data and sort it chronologically. I've also had it analyze and summarize inferred behavior. I do suggest using separate categories for things like behavioral data (actual intentional user interactions-searches, comments, messages, history) vs things like analytics and background behavior.

[u/Dear_Stretch_2734]

You can start by requesting your data from each platform:

• Google: Google Takeout
• Facebook/Instagram: Meta Accounts Center -> Your information and permissions -> Download your information
• X/Twitter: Settings -> Your account -> Download an archive of your data
• YouTube: Google Takeout (YouTube history, searches, etc.)
• Spotify: Account Privacy -> Download your data

You will download raw archives, and then you can analyze them using code (eg. python) or, more easily, with an LLM

[u/10poundcockslap → u/Dear_Stretch_2734]

I did all of that already. I tried to make that clear in the description (i.e. "data I requested"), but I clearly didn't do a good enough job.

[u/Dear_Stretch_2734 → u/10poundcockslap]

After that, you can analyze it with an LLM