Most Voted Authors - Weekly Report for Sept. 20

This is my sixth weekly analysis of the steem blockchain with Python.

These numbers are for the time period between Sept. 20 (beginning of the day) and Sept. 26 (end of the day).

Special thanks to: Hive account@bitcalm, Hive account@furion, Hive account@heimindanger, Hive account@trogdor and Hive account@xeroc for providing inspiration for the Python code behind this report.

Most Voted Authors - September 20 - September 26

Outline of the process:

1. I collect usernames for high-power voters (about 50 whales) from Hive account@heimindanger website
2. I used Python to analyze their votes. I included only the votes made on posts (ignore comment votes: if permlink[:3] != "re-")

I only analyzed whale votes due to their heavy weight. If all the votes from all users would have been included, the situation might look different (but the payout would not be affected though).

That being said:

Number of High-Power Votes Received by Authors - Plot

Number of High-Power Votes Received by Authors - Table

Number of High-Power Votes Given - Plot

Number of High-Power Votes Given - Table

Total number of high-power votes given this week: 9730.
Total number of high-power votes given last week: 8601.
Total number of high-power votes given two weeks ago: 8159.

Curie has made it to the first place, reflecting the efforts focused on user retention - finding new users and giving them an impulse.

The overall dynamics of the 'most voted authors' list is not much different from last week. We can see the same trends, some users falling from, others joining, and a few that are consistent.

Looking at past data, whales have been more active in voting - two weeks ago compared to this week - 8159 votes vs. 9730 votes. It's almost 20% increase over two weeks, which I think is also good.

I still hold my personal opinion with respect to the trending page - that I'd like to see more good science posts instead of the pseudoscience that's there almost everyday...