Hello,

I collected the data regarding all the Merits given since it was introduced (updated till 6th of April) an put it into a graph which can be navigated, this can give a pretty good idea how and where the Merits are getting distributed across the whole forum.

Starting from the "Bitcoin Forum" section, you can drill down till the thread where the Merits have been given and at the same time see the number of merit collected by each section/subsection of the forum.

It took some time to put it together, but i think it was worth
Enjoy!

https://albertoit.github.io/Visualization/index.html



Bonus pic:





How to use it:
- Mouse over on any parth of the graph will show the name of the section and the Merits which has been given under that section.
- Click on each section to zoom into that section, each subsection/threads will be shown directly in the immediate outer ring strating from the center.
- Click on the center to go back to the previous section.

what methods are used to obtain data from each local board?

do you calculate the Merit manually from each local moderator?
I'm curious because I have ever counted Merits on my local board using the manual method with the sMerit count of each moderator.

That does make sense, but it would mean almost 58% of all merits were sent to posts that have now been deleted.
I've just (manually) checked a sample of posts with high amounts of merit from theymos' data in human readable format (17 MB), and from that I'd say less than 10% went to deleted posts.

If an entire thread is deleted, obviously you can't see the board anymore. But did you included the board for deleted posts where the thread still exists?

Very nice!

I think there's something wrong with the data:

Up until the 23/03/2018, my calculations were as follows (much in line with with Zentdex's "Where the merit pours" distribution).

This is what I calculated:




In your Data for example, the Local Board adds up to 19.003, which is half of my calculation (and I calculated it 2 weeks before so there should be more, not less in your graph...).

Wow, this is next level. I made data about merit too before for my own topic but this is way out of my level, it is an awesome job. I hope you can continue to update this merits data.

Regarding to the difference between the number of merit from other thread, i guess there must be some archive to the posts that got meritted by people, so we can know the quality of the posts and increasing the accuracy of data gathering like this piggy does, and it also helps to spot merit cheaters.

Did you pause for one second between scraping posts? If you scrape too fast, you'll get empty pages, which could explain you missed about half the merited posts.

Good. Sum for Count and ready to roll...

Updated to 20th of April

Congratulations for having done such a good job. But in the end I didn't understand which is the percentage of merited posts which have been deleted (most likely because of the deletion of the entire thread). In this case, by the way, does the person keep the merit of a deleted post?

Just added the % and a new category containing the merits belonging to deleted threads, so you can have the all figure