Earned Merit Race Animation - See if you ever got to top20 merited.

[bitmover]

UPDATED 2022-12-30

Earned and sent merit are now in the same page. just click the arrow to see merit senders.

I am studying python and I managed to do something with @LoyceV's merit data and this nice website called Flourish Studio.

I cannot post videos here, so here is the image. Click in the image to see the animation:



Alternatively, you can click here for the animation.
https://www.bitcoindata.science/meritrace.html

I will make Merit Senders race soon Done and merged with this one.

Edit: I can make animations per request. For a different group of users for example. as suggested by 1miau

Other animations threads:
Bitcointalk Race Stats Animation - all in one thread

[1miau]

Nice animation, looks like I had spot No 4 before I was even registered. 



Are you also considering to create different animations per request like Re: LoyceV vs theymos (and get your own Merit graph: up to 20 users per graph)? for selected users?
Would be nice but I guess it's too much work...

[bitmover]

Are you also considering to create different animations per request like Re: LoyceV vs theymos (and get your own Merit graph: up to 20 users per graph)? for selected users?
Would be nice but I guess it's too much work...

I can do that. It is not too much work. 99% of the work was to organize the data. Now that it is organized I can make as many animations as requested pretty easily.

[rhomelmabini]

I thought there will be a way to let the speed a little bit slower but I think it doesn't matter. Do you still have to code the data for example on Anaconda or is it just drag and drop or something like that?

[suchmoon]

Damn you o_e_l_e_o... take a break, it's not a competition LOL.

Nice animation, looks like I had spot No 4 before I was even registered. 

Good decision to have that "1" in your name

[bitmover]

I thought there will be a way to let the speed a little bit slower but I think it doesn't matter.

Thanks for your suggestion, I just slowed it down.

Do you still have to code the data for example on Anaconda or is it just drag and drop or something like that?

To make custom animations I just need to select the requested data from the full merit history dataframe I made. I did in Jupyter Notebook. I just made a merit senders animation, which I will post now

[rhomelmabini]

To make custom animations I just need to select the requested data from the full merit history dataframe I made. I did in Jupyter Notebook. I just made a merit senders animation, which I will post now

My bad it was Jupyter notebook, not Anaconda that's the whole package. That will be awesome don't forget the speed as well so we can see more clearer picture of the race. LOL! 

[Shimmiry]

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Edit: I can make animations per request. For a different group of users for example. as suggested by 1miau

Thanks for the animation! Soon, someone will use this as their basis in showing graphs about important data here in the forum.

Here are my suggestions:

• Maybe you should also try animating the merit receivers from different ranks as well (i.e. Merited Member - Legendary Members)
  
• Merit senders depending by the ranks as well

Are both be possible? AFAIK LoyceV has data on it but the challenge is how could you get everything in chronological order since the merit started. Also, maybe you should just simply make a single thread about those animations or just combine it here and edit the title as "Bitcointalk Data Animation" that would contain all of your works because the ideas are the same.
I was trying to convert the video onto GIF yet can we upload gifs in here? I have cropped the video and the only problem is how can it be played here.

[TheBeardedBaby]

Interesting, Killyou72 got his name changed long ago but appeard in the list here as kullyou72. I changed my username just recently but didn't appered with my previouse nickname in the list at all.
Nicely done, good work. Happy to see myself on that list, tho

[nutildah]

You put up a good fight satoshi, but you've been bested. Take that, guy who hasn't logged in to the forum since 2010.

Funny I didn't even show up until 8/19.

It was also funny to watch DdmrDdmr pull ahead of LoyceV for a few brief moments, and then Loyce was like, nope, and sped ahead like there was no tomorrow.

I remember in 2018 and maybe early 2019 seeing people with a lot more merits than me who never even appeared in this list, thinking, "It will be a big day when I catch up to them."

Really interesting to see a few people close to the top in 2018 that I've never even heard of.

[LoyceV]

Did you know mediaBuzz did something similar 3 months ago?
Why didn't you start from day 1 of the Merit system?
Other than that: nice animation It's good to see "my" data being used. It's kinda bad though that certain Merit data can't be verified on the forum anymore: 120 days after a Merited post was deleted, you have to rely on unverifiable user data.

Every time I get closer to theymos, he does something like an art contest, and he's 6 months further ahead again

Here are my suggestions:

• Maybe you should also try animating the merit receivers from different ranks as well (i.e. Merited Member - Legendary Members)
  
• Merit senders depending by the ranks as well

Are both be possible? AFAIK LoyceV has data on it

I don't have up-to-date data on Ranks, but that's easy to get. It takes less than a day to scrape for all users who had any Merit transactions.
But the next problem is their rank now might be different than their rank when they received Merit. Users grow through the ranks as they earn Merit.

Interesting, Killyou72 got his name changed long ago but appeard in the list here

I think bitmover used my list of usernames, and I didn't update this user yet. I'll update it at my next update (Friday).

[DdmrDdmr]

It’s certainly a faster race to watch than the ones I created on the Merit Dashboard (Merit Race – updated weekly with selectable Usernames; Top 100 snail paced Merit Race as of March 2020).

<…> It was also funny to watch DdmrDdmr pull ahead of LoyceV for a few brief moments, and then Loyce was like, nope, and sped ahead like there was no tomorrow.<…>

Don’t remind me …

[bitmover]

Interesting, Killyou72 got his name changed long ago but appeard in the list here

I think bitmover used my list of usernames, and I didn't update this user yet. I'll update it at my next update (Friday).

That's exactly the reason.

Did you know mediaBuzz did something similar 3 months ago?
Why didn't you start from day 1 of the Merit system?

I made a version that went from day to day, since day 1. However, there were 2 reasons which made me decide to make this animation based on the last day of the month merit status:
1 - the dataframe became too heavy, and it was really hard to upload the data into the animation website.
2 -  on day 1 we already had more than a thousand merits distributed, so there was no visible difference. Even in the beginning of the animation, as day 1 of merit system was a very unusual day. The first data in the animation is on 31/01/18, which is basically the same as the first day (i think first day was 28/01)

Here are my suggestions:

• Maybe you should also try animating the merit receivers from different ranks as well (i.e. Merited Member - Legendary Members)
  

But the next problem is their rank now might be different than their rank when they received Merit. Users grow through the ranks as they earn Merit.

I agree, this is a problem as well. As everyone would be legendary or Hero, even though they were newbie in the beginning. Maybe I could do some algorithm to make that change over time... but too much trouble I guess.

I believe it would be nice to make a board race of circulating merits. I don't have that data now, as I don't know exactly how to convert forum posts to boards.

Really interesting to see a few people close to the top in 2018 that I've never even heard of.

Local boards plays a big role here. Even now, I can see many users who post basically in their local boards.[/list]

[LoyceV]

(i think first day was 28/01)

The first Merit was sent on Epoch time 1516831941, which translates to GMT: Wednesday 24 January 2018 22:12:21. Close enough

I believe it would be nice to make a board race of circulating merits. I don't have that data now, as I don't know exactly how to convert forum posts to boards.

You can't convert this without downloading all posts. I think DdmrDdmr has that data available on his Merit Dashboard.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

The top 10 are too fucking prolific, are you guys ever going to give the rest of us a chance to catch up?
By the way I’ve overtaken satoshi now, eat my shorts Mr Nakamoto (let’s ignore the fact he hasn’t posted for about 10 years )

[Harlot]

@OP here are some of my suggestions/requests about the data hoping to find a different view in the merits

- Merit Race in Local Boards - Like what was previously said some members in BCT mostly post in their local boards it will be interesting to see who is winning.
- Top Merits received by post - although the results will be similar to what you have now this will give a different view on how much merits the members are receiving on each post
- Top Reciprocal Merit Senders

[bitmover]

@OP here are some of my suggestions/requests about the data hoping to find a different view in the merits

- Merit Race in Local Boards - Like what was previously said some members in BCT mostly post in their local boards it will be interesting to see who is winning.

To do that I will need to do this first, as I don't knowc from which board the merit came from with my current data.

I believe it would be nice to make a board race of circulating merits. I don't have that data now, as I don't know exactly how to convert forum posts to boards.

You can't convert this without downloading all posts. I think DdmrDdmr has that data available on his Merit Dashboard.

[tranthidung]

Haha. Thank you for the animation video.

Besides the race of merit senders that you planned to do, how about the DT strength race video?

LoyceV provides a raw data, and I made my analysis with weekly DT strength for 151 DT1 members.

What I have?

• 151 DT1 members: userid, username.
• DT strength stats
• Time variable: Don't have actually. What I have is ordinal week numbers

For such data, can you make an animated video? If you need such data, let me know.

Data will be something like that and if you need excel version, tell me.  

Code:

     +-----------------------------------------+
     | userid   username   dtstrength   weekid |
     |-----------------------------------------|
  1. |     35    theymos           36        6 |
  2. |     35    theymos           45        7 |
  3. |     35    theymos           46        8 |
  4. |     35    theymos           46        9 |
  5. |     35    theymos           46       10 |
  6. |     35    theymos           46       11 |
  7. |     35    theymos           49       12 |
  8. |     35    theymos           49       13 |
  9. |     35    theymos           49       14 |
 10. |     35    theymos           49       15 |
 11. |     35    theymos           49       16 |
 12. |     35    theymos           49       17 |
 13. |     35    theymos           47       18 |
 14. |     35    theymos           47       19 |
 15. |     35    theymos           49       20 |
 16. |     35    theymos           50       21 |
 17. |     35    theymos           58       22 |
 18. |     35    theymos           59       23 |
 19. |     35    theymos           59       24 |
 20. |     35    theymos           59       25 |
 21. |     35    theymos           60       26 |
 22. |     35    theymos           61       27 |
 23. |     35    theymos           61       28 |
 24. |     35    theymos           61       29 |
 25. |     35    theymos           61       30 |
 26. |     35    theymos           61       31 |
 27. |     35    theymos           61       32 |
 28. |     35    theymos           61       33 |
 29. |     35    theymos           61       34 |
 30. |     35    theymos           61       35 |
 31. |     35    theymos           62       36 |
 32. |     35    theymos           62       37 |
 33. |     35    theymos           62       38 |
 34. |     35    theymos           62       39 |
 35. |     35    theymos           62       40 |
 36. |     35    theymos           62       41 |
 37. |     35    theymos           62       42 |
 38. |     35    theymos           59       43 |
 39. |     35    theymos           59       44 |
 40. |     35    theymos           59       45 |
 41. |     35    theymos           59       46 |
 42. |     35    theymos           57       47 |
 43. |     35    theymos           56       48 |
 44. |     35    theymos           56       49 |
 45. |     35    theymos           56       50 |
 46. |     35    theymos           61       51 |
 47. |     35    theymos           62       52 |
 48. |     35    theymos           60       53 |
 49. |     35    theymos           60       54 |
 50. |     35    theymos           61       55 |
 51. |     35    theymos           61       56 |
 52. |     35    theymos           61       57 |
 53. |     35    theymos           61       58 |
 54. |     35    theymos           57       59 |
 55. |     35    theymos           56       60 |
 56. |     35    theymos           56       61 |
 57. |     35    theymos           56       62 |
 58. |     35    theymos           56       63 |
 59. |     35    theymos           60       64 |
 60. |     35    theymos           58       65 |
 61. |     35    theymos           58       66 |
 62. |     35    theymos           58       67 |
 63. |     35    theymos           58       68 |
 64. |     35    theymos            .       69 |
 65. |     35    theymos            .       70 |
 66. |     35    theymos            .       71 |
 67. |     35    theymos            .       72 |
 68. |     35    theymos            .       73 |
     +-----------------------------------------+

[bitmover]

Haha. Thank you for the animation video.

Besides the race of merit senders that you planned to do, how about the DT strength race video?

LoyceV provides a raw data, and I made my analysis with weekly DT strength for 151 DT1 members.

What I have?

• 151 DT1 members: userid, username.
• DT strength stats
• Time variable: Don't have actually. What I have is ordinal week numbers

For such data, can you make an animated video? If you need such data, let me know.

Amazing. I can do that with your information.  I liked your idea.

Your time variable is good enough. I will convert it to real date times.

[tranthidung]

Amazing. I can do that with your information.  I liked your idea.

Your time variable is good enough. I will convert it to real date times.

I don't know details on date time from weekid. You should ask LoyceV for such details because it depends on how he coded weekid.

Now, what do you need? Data in above format or in excel sheet?