[ANIMATED CHART] Local Boards Post Race

[bitmover]

This an animated chart created with data from Rikafip post [CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity.

I scraped the data from each chart and added here in this new animated chart, as suggested by dkbit98  and Rikafip.

We can see the evolution of each local board activity since 2020.

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/12312077/

I hope you guys enjoy. I am open for suggestions.

I was thinking about adding flags on each board, but I felt this very complicated as some languages/board might be shared along many different countries.

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[rdluffy]

Well done bitmover!

It's incredible to see the numbers in this way, we can see interesting things like Turkish board, 2nd place right now but with tons of posts, probably because the situation in their country, inflation and now people are more interested in cryptos.

Italian board, November 2021, 1st place, with a huge spike in posts. (Do you know the reason?)

And the most interesting board, Russian from Jun 2021 to July 2021. Why did this board have only a few posts in this period, disappearing from the top 18?

[fillippone]

I am quite surprised by the spike in the Italian board, and I cannot remember anything like this.
I think you should double-check your numbers here.

[bitmover]

Well done bitmover!

It's incredible to see the numbers in this way, we can see interesting things like Turkish board, 2nd place right now but with tons of posts, probably because the situation in their country, inflation and now people are more interested in cryptos.

Italian board, November 2021, 1st place, with a huge spike in posts. (Do you know the reason?)

Thanks a lot for pointing this out. This was a typing error, I added one more zero by mistake.

Already fixed!!

And the most interesting board, Russian from Jun 2021 to July 2021. Why did this board have only a few posts in this period, disappearing from the top 18?

This is explaned in Rikafip topic:

Last month Russian board had so many posts deleted that they ended up in negative, meaning they are missing from this month's chart.

As I used his data, the same results are here as well.

[joker_josue]

Good job bitmover.

It is true that these numbers are presented every month, but when you assemble this type of graphs you get a more comprehensive view of the numbers presented.

I found it curious that although French is one of the most spoken languages in the world, it is not one of the busiest local boards. Is there so little interest in Bitcoin in France or in French speaking countries?

[fillippone]

Very nice work.
I posted it on my META thread.

Do you plan updating it from time to time os it is going to be a one off?

[bitmover]

Very nice work.
I posted it on my META thread.

Do you plan updating it from time to time os it is going to be a one off?

Thansk for sharing.

I will to update it monthly as Rikafip updates his post.

Just add the next month data is pretty easy for me now.

[dkbit98]

Great looking animated chart for local boards and it arrived just in perfect time in the end of year
I was not aware there was so many changes in top positions and German board is the only one that is somehow holding grounds with Turkish and Russian board.
Pakistan shows decent amount of posts and I think they deserved to get new local board like Nigeria did.

@bitmover is there any way to get something similar for period before 2020?

[bitmover]

@bitmover is there any way to get something similar for period before 2020?

As I said, I used the data from Rikafip posts.

It took some time to take them. But using other tools, like DdmrDdmr dashboard or ninjastic.space it may be possible to get data prior to 2020. I will take a look later!

[dzungmobile]

2022 ends but in this year, some members crossed 10,000 merit but you did not update your animated chart for their merit race.

Is it time for it?

The last update stops at October 2020.
Earned merit race animation
https://bitcoindata.science/meritrace.html

Race to 10k merit club

[Rikafip]

I was not aware there was so many changes in top positions and German board is the only one that is somehow holding grounds with Turkish and Russian board.

In reality Russian board never really lost the first spot, all that changes were caused due old deleted posts which was the cause for me switching to another data source.

Pakistan shows decent amount of posts and I think they deserved to get new local board like Nigeria did.

Pakistan is going strong for at least 2 years now, which is imho proof enough that they are not going anywhere and that they indeed deserve their own local board in order to develop further, like Nigerians will now after they got their own.

It took some time to take them. But using other tools, like DdmrDdmr dashboard or ninjastic.space it may be possible to get data prior to 2020. I will take a look later!

Afaik Merit Dashboard shows data from 2018 onward while on ninjastic.space you can find local board post count from the moment of their creation.

Needless to say, awesome work!

[dkbit98]

It took some time to take them. But using other tools, like DdmrDdmr dashboard or ninjastic.space it may be possible to get data prior to 2020. I will take a look later!

Thanks!
I am looking forward.

In reality Russian board never really lost the first spot, all that changes were caused due old deleted posts which was the cause for me switching to another data source.

Thanks for explanation.
I was wondering what really happened there but I didn't want to ask to many questions and open new Pandora's box.
Do you think Russian board was in the first place even before 2020 since the beginning?

Pakistan shows decent amount of posts and I think they deserved to get new local board like Nigeria did.
Pakistan is going strong for at least 2 years now, which is imho proof enough that they are not going anywhere and that they indeed deserve their own local board in order to develop further, like Nigerians will now after they got their own.

They had similar or more activity then Nigerian board, so I think 2023 is going to be their year.
Theymos is probably careful when making any changes, and he waits to see if this activity will continue or it is just a passing thing.

[yhiaali3]

very good work bitmover.

Through the animated chart, I see very little activity in some local boards. I don't know why. Is it because Crypto is not widespread in these countries, or is it because members from these countries write in English most of the time?

I also think that signature campaigns may play a role in the low activity of some local boards, because some signature campaigns do not count posts in local boards. This is why many members do not write in their local language.

[Lillominato89]

congratulations for the good work done bitmover.
the number of posts that are made monthly on all the local boards is impressive, as an Italian I am pleased to see that many compatriots write a lot on the forum even if we are not as competitive as Russia and Turkey, but the fifth place is already a great achievement

[Rikafip]

Do you think Russian board was in the first place even before 2020 since the beginning?

Yep. Some time ago I was curious to see what were the numbers back in those early days and from what I saw, Russian was always the most active local board. At the height of the ICO craze in the late 2017-early 2018 Russian board was regularly going over 150-200k which is insane number compared to situation now. Big part of that was probably bounty spam, but number was impressive nevertheless.

Through the animated chart, I see very little activity in some local boards. I don't know why. Is it because Crypto is not widespread in these countries, or is it because members from these countries write in English most of the time?

If I have to take a guess, its probably more about people from those countries probably using some other mean of communication rather than anything else.

I also think that signature campaigns may play a role in the low activity of some local boards, because some signature campaigns do not count posts in local boards. This is why many members do not write in their local language.

That's probably a factor too, but I never really understood that behavior. I was in a campaign that didn't count count posts in local boards for a year and a half and it never crossed my mind that I should write there less, or to avoid my local board all together.

[1miau]

Great visualization about post counts, I've shared it in our German section.

I'm sure if we would go back to 2018 / 2019, Indonesia and Pilipinas sections would be much stronger as activities dropped off a bit there but formerly less active boards like Portuguese and the Italian section are looking stronger right now. It's also interesting to see our Nigerian board as a TOP 10 local section already, showing once again that it was overdue to give a local board to our Nigerian members. Pakistan is also looking strong currently on rank 12.
And I'm very surprised how much our French section dropped off compared to early 2020...

I will to update it monthly as Rikafip updates his post.

+1
Well done and I'll try to visit your topic sometimes. 

[bitmover]

2022 ends but in this year, some members crossed 10,000 merit but you did not update your animated chart for their merit race.

Is it time for it?

The last update stops at October 2020.
Earned merit race animation
https://bitcoindata.science/meritrace.html

Race to 10k merit club

Thanks for reminding me.
I just updated it.

You can check here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5256091.0
https://bitcoindata.science/meritrace.html

[MAAManda]

Good work @bitmover, with this animated chart, of course, it will be very easy for us to see how the evolution of posts on each local board. But I have a little question about this.

Do we get important points from the chart you made? I see that the animated chart that you made was taken from data for 2020 to November 2022, besides that the data also doesn't accumulate from every month data.

We (at Indonesia's local board) have our own topic for monthly charts which are regularly updated, besides that, we also evaluate and discuss there. Therefore, I think that's better to have this animated chart made for quarterly, or yearly. So, someone from 1 local board can bring it to their local board and get points from the quarterly or yearly data (for local board evaluation purposes to make it more good). And it would be better if we have quarterly or yearly data accumulated from each month.

Example:
January = 200 posts | February = 230 posts | March = 100 posts

So, the result for the Q1 data is 530 posts

Note: I know that what I'm saying can be done even without this animated chart, but it would be better with animated charts. This is just a little suggestion, accepted or not it's @OP's right.

[bitmover]

Example:
January = 200 posts | February = 230 posts | March = 100 posts

So, the result for the Q1 data is 530 posts

Note: I know that what I'm saying can be done even without this animated chart, but it would be better with animated charts. This is just a little suggestion, accepted or not it's @OP's right.

The problem with this approach  is that there wouldn't be a real race.

oldest board will just have more posts, and the current activity will have little weight in the total over the last decade.

[fillippone]

Hello @bitmover.
It's almost that time of the month: do you think you can update your video?
It would be a beautiful addition to this month's Italian Board Overview!