Bitcointalk Merit Dashboard

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 09/10/2018:

Added a new tab to the Merit Dashboard called "Merited User Summary". The tab allows you to get a quick visual summary for your profile (or anyone else’s), summarizing the core indicators, summary of sMerits received and sent per month, implied Ranks, and board section/subsections, as well as the users you merit and that have merited you.



It’s interesting to click on the images and use them as filters. For example:

-   Clicking on a specific Received or Sent month on the charts, adjusts all sections to the data for that month (click again to deselect or use the arrows situated on the bottom right of the screen).

-   Clicking on a Specific subsection acts likewise.

-   Clicking on a specific From User allows us to see a summary of when that user sent us sMerit, adjusting the month and subsections accordingly. To User works in the same way.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 11/10/2018:
Tableau has had recent updates, which after a bit of tweaking, now allow the Merit Dashboard to be visible on multiple devices with better fitting. I’ve arranged things around so that a generic phone device can now be used to view the Merit Dashboard (specially in portrait mode). I may still make arrangements in the following days, since one or two horizontal scrolls are not working yet, and a few other minor things need to be adjusted.

Since the Dashboard often filters when you select a chart bar or a table row, it may not be that easy to get used to it on a mobile, while scrolling around and not accidently activating a filter. I personally prefer a larger screen though, but I think this version is a decent starting point for mobile visualization of the Dashboard.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 12/10/2018:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  245.542
Total Txs:      114.571
From Users:    17.957
To Users:        22.925
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21   
maxDate:       2018-10-12 02:51:00

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard. 

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (01/10/2018..07/10/2018) is 4.325, which is 4% less than the previous week.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 19/10/2018:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  249.532
Total Txs:      116.791
From Users:    18.100
To Users:        23.291
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21  
maxDate:       2018-10-19 02:51:40

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard.  

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (08/10/2018..14/10/2018) is 3.981, which is 7,95% less than the previous week!
In addition, the number of new merited users (first timers) is down 29,35% for the same two week comparison.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 26/10/2018:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  254.387
Total Txs:      119.392
From Users:    18.246
To Users:        23.670
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21   
maxDate:       2018-10-26 02:39:01

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard. 

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (15/10/2018..21/10/2018) is 4.424, which is 11,13% more than the previous (likely new Merit Source refills).

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 26/10/2018:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  257.779
Total Txs:      121.386
From Users:    18.374
To Users:        23.981
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21 
maxDate:       2018-11-02 02:45:04

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard. 

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (22/10/2018..28/10/2018) is 4.386, which is practically the same as the previous week.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 09/11/2018:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  261.279
Total Txs:      123.476
From Users:    18.468
To Users:        24.234
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21  
maxDate:       2018-11-09 02:48:39

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard.  

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (29/10/2018..04/11/2018) is 3.321, which is down 24,28% from the previous week.


I also added by request a filter on the Ranked-up Tab (called “subsection (choose one)”). This filter was non-trivial, and on this tab has the semantics of filtering the ranked-up users to those with at least 1 received sMerit in the selected Subsection.
This is very useful for local boards, as for example filtering by subsection “French” will show all users that have ranked-up needing merit, and that have received at least 1 sMerit in the French Local board. It is very likely that these users are therefore French (or affinities), and thus is a way of seeing who has ranked-up on a local board.

Obviously there can be false positives, created by multilingual people who post and get merited on more than one local board. Also locals who only get merited on English board sections only will not be detected as a local of a given language.

[jointherevolution]

Oh my, a lot of work went to this! I imagine the goal is to be able to investigate if a user gets merit from same people maliciously when they try to cover it up? 120 days is a lot to wait but some might do it.

[DdmrDdmr]

<...>

Yes, quite a bit of work has gone into creating the Merit Dashboard, and the weekly updates take-up some additional time. My initial goal was really to put some of the analysis I had done in the past into one single environment, that allowed for regular updates without having to redo the analysis themselves (see the last Tab labelled "references").

Most of those analysis really focused on a global perspective, although the added filters and tabs allow us to view the information at an individual level, and therefore serve for micro-purposes too.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 16/11/2018:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  265.886
Total Txs:      125.733
From Users:    18.581
To Users:        24.481
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21 
maxDate:       2018-11-16 02:36:37

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard. 

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (05/11/2018..11/11/2018) is 4.175, which is up 26% from the previous week, and fortunately settles back into the lower 4K area which is the usual base as of late.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 23/11/2018:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  270.135
Total Txs:      128.051
From Users:    18.681
To Users:        24.670
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21 
maxDate:       2018-11-23 02:38:51

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard. 

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (12/11/2018..18/11/2018) is 4.047, which is down 3,07% from the previous week, which is a non significant variation really.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 30/11/2018:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  274.008
Total Txs:      130.157
From Users:    18.752
To Users:        24.825
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21  
maxDate:       2018-11-30 01:41:21

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard.  

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (19/11/2018..25/11/2018) is 4.606 which is up 13,81% from the previous week. The total amount is the highest since the beginning of June 2018 (withe the known 9,5K exception in mid September 2018).

We have a new Hero Member: bitserve.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 07/12/2018:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  277.908
Total Txs:      132.142
From Users:    18.848
To Users:        25.008
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21 
maxDate:       2018-12-07 02:50:25

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard. 

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (26/11/2018..02/12/2018) is 3.791 which is down 18% from the previous week.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 15/12/2018:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  281.640
Total Txs:     134.130
From Users:    18.937
To Users:        25.180
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21   
maxDate:       2018-12-14 02:38:14

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard. 

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (03/12/2018..09/12/2018) is 3.596 which is down 5% from the previous week.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 21/12/2018:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  285.312
Total Txs:     136.054
From Users:    19.013
To Users:        25.328
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21   
maxDate:       2018-12-21 02:49:50

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard. 

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (10/12/2018..16/12/2018) is 3.689 which is up 2,59% from the previous week.

[vanmincoin]

I think if we are really passionate about crypto currency, we should not pay much attention to getting Merit and ranking on the forum. Just make a good contribution and everyone will acknowledge your efforts

[DdmrDdmr]

<…>

There are plenty of people Id say where for who merit and rank are of no concern, probably more concentrated of the rather technical boards that are closer to the core development and evolution of crypto. Of course there is a whole different set of non-technical people who are rather passionate about seeing crypto thrive from a usability point of view.

Merit and rank are more of a personal nature, being a means to do business, feed the ego, or simply a means to milk the forum’s cow token boobs. They are not crypto related, but simply personal enablers.. or simply something to obviate.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 28/12/2018:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  288.812
Total Txs:      137.834
From Users:    19.063
To Users:        25.451
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21 
maxDate:       2018-12-28 02:48:32

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard. 

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (17/12/2018 .. 23/12/2018) is 3.615 which is down 2,01% from the previous week.

We've also got a couple of new Heroes: roycilik and Coding Enthusiast.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 04/01/2019:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  291.791
Total Txs:      139.471
From Users:    19.152
To Users:        25.609
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21   
maxDate:       2019-01-04 02:22:19

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard. 

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (24/12/2018 .. 30/12/2018) is 3.245 which is down 10,24% from the previous week.

[DdmrDdmr]

Edit 11/01/2019:

Updated Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:

Total sMerit:  297.517
Total Txs:      142.429
From Users:    19.236
To Users:        25.809
minDate:        2018-01-24 22:12:21
maxDate:       2019-01-11 02:49:34

The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:  BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard. 

Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (31/12/2018 .. 06/01/2019) is 4.272 which is up 31,65% from the previous week, likely related to Merit Source quota adjustment and reset.

In addition, there are two more Legendries (TMAN and Hhampuz) and two more Heroes (d_eddie and nullCoiner).