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help to decipher wp metadata

What you’re referring to is serialized data. To save an array to MySQL the data is serialized upon submission, so the best way to read that data is to pull it out of the database with a function that unserializes it, which WordPress does for you. More details

So somewhere in a theme or plugin you could just use get_user_meta() to print the array of data for any given user.

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